Software Development Engineer, Amazon QuickSight

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative organization within a leading tech company is seeking a Software Development Engineer to enhance and build user experiences integrating generative AI capabilities. This role offers autonomy, ownership, and the chance to work with a talented team on complex problems at scale. The ideal candidate will have a strong sense of ownership, a passion for creative solutions, and a commitment to high code quality. Join a dynamic team that values mentorship and career growth, and be part of a transformative journey in business intelligence and workplace productivity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with design patterns and system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into detailed architecture and working software solutions.
• Ensure code quality and participate in design reviews.

Skills

Software Development

System Architecture

Code Quality

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Testing Frameworks

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Amazon QuickSight

Job ID: 2953277 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Q for Business within AWS is an innovative organization within Amazon dedicated to leveraging state-of-the-art technology to drive business intelligence and data-driven decision making across the company. We are focused on revolutionizing workplace productivity through innovative generative AI technology. Generative AI is playing an important role in improving customer experience in several domains such as contact centers, media and entertainment, and healthcare.

Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, pixel-perfect reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, business analysts and business users can use natural language to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds, turning insights into impact faster. Next, we are bringing together new Q Business Generative AI capabilities inside of QuickSight to make it the most compelling experience for business users.

In this role with Amazon Q in QuickSight, you will enhance and build new foundational components and user experiences to enable integrating generative AI capabilities with existing features for business users. This role offers wide scope, autonomy, and ownership. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical and leadership experience to work with a team of stellar engineers to drive multi-year design and architecture decisions.

We are looking for an SDE with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for delivering creative solutions for complex problems on an unprecedented scale.

Software Engineers at Amazon partner with customers, stakeholders, product managers, and UX designers to define and execute the product goals. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions. You're a thought leader, but you don't just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by building the solution. Last but not least; you have a high bar for code quality and passion for design and architecture.

Key job responsibilities

1. Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture/design/working software solutions.
2. Code and test system components; participate in code and design reviews.
3. Demonstrate ownership of end-to-end code quality, system tests, functional tests, and integration.
4. Partner/Collaborate across teams/roles to deliver results.
5. Be responsible for overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance.

About the team

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.