Applied AI Backend Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Boston is seeking a seasoned software engineer to own features end-to-end—from UI to services and data—and ship to production where customers rely on them daily.

You will design and scale backend services, expand data integrations through the Model Context Protocol, and improve AI-driven output with robust safety and quality gates, working with a collaborative team across product and field engineers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• Knowledge of Python and/or C++ programming.

Responsibilities

• Own whole features from the screen a user sees to the services and data underneath, making the design calls across the full stack and shipping each one to production, where real people rely on them every day.
• Build and scale the services that turn raw, free-form field input into structured, searchable, trustworthy records — keeping them fast and reliable as usage grows.
• Expand the tools and integrations the product exposes through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), connecting it to more data sources and letting AI assistants safely do more on a user's behalf.
• Wire large language models into the product and raise the quality bar on what they produce — sharper summarization, tagging, and quality gating so strong output ships and weak output doesn't.
• Build the natural-language experiences that let people ask for what they need and get answers grounded in real data — and only the data they're allowed to see.
• Write the design docs, run code reviews, debug the gnarly production issues, and mentor the engineers around you.

Skills

Software development

Design/Architecture

OO Design

Python/C++

Full SDLC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Boston is seeking a seasoned software engineer to own features end-to-end—from UI to services and data—and ship to production where customers rely on them daily.

You will design and scale backend services, expand data integrations through the Model Context Protocol, and improve AI-driven output with robust safety and quality gates, working with a collaborative team across product and field engineers.