Senior Software Architect & Tech Lead

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead the design and delivery of large-scale software systems, own the team’s architectural direction, mentor engineers, and contribute high-quality code across the full software lifecycle. You will work with cross-functional partners to balance requirements and tradeoffs while ensuring security and performance.

This role demands strong leadership, collaboration, and a passion for building enduring software that serves millions of customers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of multi-engineer software projects, owning your team's architectural direction and ensuring systems are well-designed, extensible, performant, and secure.
• Write high-quality, production-ready code that demonstrates best practices in organization, clarity, error handling, and documentation, while evaluating opportunities to integrate generative AI tools to augment productivity.
• Drive technical strategy by balancing short-term delivery needs against long-term maintainability, identifying one-way-door decisions, and advocating for the right solutions across your team and dependent systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, clarify assumptions, and resolve conflicting constraints, ensuring alignment on system design tradeoffs including scalability, performance, and security.
• Mentor and coach engineers on your team and across related teams, contribute to recruiting efforts, and establish strong operational practices including alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospective processes.

Skills

Software development

Programming

Architecture leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead the design and delivery of large-scale software systems, own the team’s architectural direction, mentor engineers, and contribute high-quality code across the full software lifecycle. You will work with cross-functional partners to balance requirements and tradeoffs while ensuring security and performance.

This role demands strong leadership, collaboration, and a passion for building enduring software that serves millions of customers