Tech Lead, AI-Native Benefits Platform

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to be the tech lead for a flagship BETS product in Seattle. You will own team architecture, guide system design, and oversee features across the full lifecycle, working with multiple organizations.

You will mentor engineers, shape engineering best practices, and drive the AI native build loop strategy, including responsible autonomy and guardrails. You will stay hands‑on, contribute to critical code reviews, and collaborate with partner teams

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead your team’s software development end to end: own the team‑level architecture, provide the system‑wide view and design guidance, make the high‑stakes one‑way‑door decisions, and deliver a system of many features across its full lifecycle.
• Be the tech lead on large, ambiguous problems that span multiple organizations, where the customer direction is clear but the technology strategy is not; drive clarity and align partner teams on the path forward.
• Lead and mentor engineers: coach multiple engineers on and off your team, help grow the team through recruiting and career guidance, and drive adoption of engineering best practices that others emulate.
• Work backwards from the customer, bringing product design judgment to technical decisions, not just technical elegance.
• Lead the team’s AI Native build loops: define the specs, acceptance criteria, and simulation coverage that let agents safely take on more of the work, and shape the agentic foundations the team builds on (Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, MCP).
• Stay a hands‑on practitioner: contribute to the code and code reviews that most affect the product, and hold human‑authored and agent‑authored work to the same high bar.
• Drive operational excellence and resolve root causes across boundaries: ensure strong alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospectives, and eliminate endemic problems even when the fix requires influencing other teams.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Amazon seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to be the tech lead for a flagship BETS product in Seattle. You will own team architecture, guide system design, and oversee features across the full lifecycle, working with multiple organizations.

You will mentor engineers, shape engineering best practices, and drive the AI native build loop strategy, including responsible autonomy and guardrails. You will stay hands‑on, contribute to critical code reviews, and collaborate with partner teams