Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick
Seattle, WA$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Full-stack engineer for Quick Core Experience, focusing on platform-level infrastructure behind Amazon Quick, including asset metadata services, real-time customization, and enterprise governance across web, mobile, and desktop experiences. Role involves designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, building scalable front-end experiences, and owning complex problems from indexing pipelines to search and discovery within a multi-region, multi-tenant enterprise context.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of distributed systems, providing system-wide architectural guidance
- Build Agents to ease on-boarding and evaluation of Enterprise governance across Quick features and Quick accounts
- Balance speed of execution with architectural requirements, identifying one-way door decisions that require the right long-term solution
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices and operational excellence across the team
- Solve complex technical problems with multiple risks and roadblocks, bringing clarity through simple, well-designed solutions
- Mentor and coach multiple engineers, helping develop the next generation of technical talent
- Effectively communicate technical designs to both technical and non-technical audiences
Qualifications
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Skills
Required:Software developmentArchitecture and designObject Oriented Design
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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