Amazon Legal Technologies is an innovative and high-energy team that supports Amazon’s legal operations worldwide. We focus on creating easy to use, highly secure, ingenious solutions that allow our business to efficiently scale for the future. We are looking for a smart, creative, and results-oriented Software Engineer who is excited by unique challenges and is passionate about using the latest technologies to solve customers’ needs. This is an excellent opportunity for a developer who is looking for a growth position with a high level of ownership in a small, growing team.
Think big! Own, design and create innovative new solutions that allow the Legal department to scale and improve customer service without increasing headcount. As a key member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work directly with your customers, owning major deliverables across all aspects of development: scoping, design, implementation, and testing. Successful candidates can multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems. Candidates applying to this position should be enthusiastic about sharing their previous experiences and lessons with our team to help us collectively succeed.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
– Design and build user interfaces for applications to make customer lives better
– Play a role in the definition, vision, design and development of a new platform from beginning to end
– Work through all phases of the project lifecycle, including reviewing requirements, designing services that lay foundation for the new technology platform, building new interfaces and also integrate with existing architectures, developing and testing code, and delivering seamless implementations for Global Legal customers
– Use front end software design patterns
– Design and code technical solutions in tools such as Angular/React JS, Node.js, JQuery to deliver value to legal customers
– Build dashboard and visualization services
– Brainstorm, prototype, build iteratively using agile methodologies
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 3+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
– 1+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
– Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react
– Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
– Knows how to instrument software with real user metrics to reflect the customer experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– 2+ years of agile software development methodology experience
– Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
– Good knowledge of AWS Services and IAAS/SAAS concepts.Able to solve difficult software and UX problems with some ambiguity. Pushes for information to avoid solving the wrong problem and mitigate UI risks early in the process to avoid feature delays. Can decompose a problem into clear software and UX design actions.
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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.