Software Engineer

Job Description

• The Next Chapter program at Company is a 16-week paid returnship for experienced professionals returning to the workforce after taking time off for caregiving.
• The program is open to individuals who have at least 2 years of professional experience and have been out of the paid workforce for at least 1 year to focus on caring for a child or other dependent and is not currently in a university program.
• we are excited to launch the Next Chapter program because we appreciate the skills you can offer, the perspective you provide, and the contributions you will make.
• This program offers you a chance to revamp your skills, update your resume with new experience, and make connections with other women and men transitioning back to the workforce.
• It also offers support through Path Forward, a nonprofit organization on a mission to empower people who've been focused on caregiving transition back to the paid workforce.

• We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help the team build customer-facing UI for Company applications.
• We need your help to develop and deliver on this vision.
• Success means we Client the foundation for continued expansion of our company without disrupting an already tremendously successful and much-loved project.
• Feature development at Company is a highly collaborative exercise, and you will be working directly with PMs and UX designers to help define the work that will drive customer value in the app.

• The app teams own the core experience for Company apps.
• Customers spend most of their time with Company on their apps.
• It's our responsibility to push Company into new places for their listening. Achieving this vision means building a cohesive user experience on the app, maintaining operational excellence, and reducing the customer friction that gets between our users and their content.

• A great communicator who can distill important information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping them make informed decisions confidently.
• A team player who brings energy and passion to all efforts and inspires others to do the same.
• Passionate about bringing your skills to Company while being open and eager to learn new things.
• A detail-oriented problem-solver who enjoys the process of scratching beneath the surface to find the best solution to challenges.
• Curious and unafraid to ask questions to gain a deeper understanding.

• Be part of the team. Our core goal is to make the app easier to use for our customers and more easily maintained by our engineers.
• Own key components within our platform, with the support of the team. "Owning " means envisioning, designing, creating, building, testing, and supporting.
• The Software Engineer will contribute to the development of the technical direction and strategy within the team and help influence technology across the company and beyond.
• Partner with product management to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that invigorates our community and inspires our peers.
• Evangelize our content and application, work closely with business development, and through events like external hackathons and internal brown bag sessions.
• The Software Engineer will take advantage of the resources, training, and experts around you to stay up to date with tools, trends, technologies, and frameworks both industry-wide and within Amazon, and then share that knowledge in a meaningful way with the community.
• Solve problems that are not clearly defined and have a large degree of ambiguity while translating our organizational vision into functional plans that guide their execution.
• Support our developers. "Support " means being the go-to person for questions but never a bottleneck. See around the corner and anticipate developers' needs.

• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C, or C# including object-oriented design.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Background in any customer-facing software development (internal or external).

• Prior success as a software engineer, subject matter expert, and strategic influencer on the direction of the product design and development.
• Working knowledge of software development best practices: dependency injection, design patterns, unit/integration testing
• Experience building enterprise-scale mobile applications.
• Experience with application development, and app-adjacent tools and SDKs.
• Competency in automation, enthusiasm for continuous integration/deployment.