Senior Backend Engineer, AWS Connect & AI

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for AWS Connect, Cascades, to design and build scalable backend services powering Amazon Connect.

You’ll own end-to-end development from design to deployment, collaborating with product managers and engineers across teams. The role emphasizes mentoring, on-call responsibilities, and contributing to architecture and roadmaps while advancing fault tolerance and data consistency in distributed systems, using Java and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain highly available, scalable backend services that power Amazon Connect's customer-facing features
• Own the full software development lifecycle for assigned projects from technical design through deployment and operational excellence
• Write clean, testable production-quality code (primarily Java) and conduct rigorous code reviews for peers
• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and partner teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Identify and resolve complex technical problems across distributed systems, including performance optimization, fault tolerance, and data consistency
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions and pair programming
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational reviews driving improvements to reduce operational burden
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical roadmap planning for the team's services
• Write and maintain design documents, runbooks and operational documentation

Skills

Java

TypeScript

Backend services

Distributed systems

Mentor

AWS

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for AWS Connect, Cascades, to design and build scalable backend services powering Amazon Connect.

You’ll own end-to-end development from design to deployment, collaborating with product managers and engineers across teams. The role emphasizes mentoring, on-call responsibilities, and contributing to architecture and roadmaps while advancing fault tolerance and data consistency in distributed systems, using Java and