As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Are you passionate about the intersection of cloud computing and mobile communications? Join the AWS End User Messaging team to build large-scale messaging applications for app developers and enterprises to engage their users. We are ramping up the team to build out richer and more engaging interactions and experiences through easy to use interfaces. This is a unique opportunity to work with technologies at the bleeding edge and support a high-performing team that is working to change the end user communications industry by ramping up trailblazing features and technologies for developers.

AWS End User Messaging is recruiting a Software Development Engineer who will be a technical leader, responsible for helping drive messaging products including SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, and Push technologies. You will work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to help translate strategic business needs into features and projects, and then work with your team to deliver those features and projects more quickly than many would think possible.

As the Software Development Engineer, you will work as a technology leader and demonstrate exemplary practice in design and implementation of new scalable services. You will lead technology areas that drive solutions for a super solid, scalable, efficient, and extremely fault tolerant services. You will help influencing overall strategy by helping define the product features, driving system architecture, and spearheading the best practices that enable a quality product. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving some of the hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems at massive scale on an ongoing basis and have a demonstrable track record for delivering successful products.

The best part of working with AWS End User Messaging is the chance to help customers solve exciting new challenges and create new web-based experiences every day that impacts millions of users. AWS customers are innovators, and you will have the chance to work with them to understand their challenges and design new offerings. Join us and make history building a massive-scale messaging system!

This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of service engineering, as well as demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing, and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment. As the Software Development Engineer, you will engage in the following key responsibilities:

- Develop and deploy cloud software frameworks for AWS End User Messaging SMS and Voice Products
- Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support of (mainly Java-based) software
- Create new feature and performance improvements
- Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications
- Instill best practices for software development and documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, and delivering high quality software on tight schedule

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