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# Software Dev Engineer II

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $114,400.0 - $124,800.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon DynamoDB, Python (Programming Language), Scrum Methodology, TypeScript, Backend, Front End Software Development, Route53, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us932312a6c0bdf50a330e1082041c3709

## About the Role

* TyperScript
 * Client experience
 * Gen AI experience

Nice to haves:

 * Transportation/ Aviation experience

Leadership Principles:

 * Deliver results
 * Bias for action
 * Ownership

Years of Experience:

 * 3-5+ years of experience

Disqualifies:

 * Has only worked on front end projects and has not worked with any AWS technologies

Degree/ Certification Requirements:

 * Bachelors degree

What background does someone have that is successful in this role:

 * AWS Services
 * API Gateway
 * CloudFront
 * Lambda
 * DynamoDB Global Tables
 * EventBridge (instead of SNS/SQS, but we have some legacy SNS/SQS)
 * Pipes
 * Route 53
 * Step Functions Skills
 * We don't use Cloudscape
 * Both frontend and backend are TypeScript (with one exception: the loadplan optimizer is Python, but our team is very committed to porting it to TypeScript

## Description

Purpose of the Team and key projects:

 * Automate and centralize

Team culture:

 * Senior team

Why is the position open:

 * Increase workload

Daily schedule:

 * Monday-Friday

OT, Weekend, or Holiday schedule:

 * 2hr OT buffer, no holidays

Task Breakdown and Workflow:

 * Task assigned by lead SDE
 * Work with that lead to define the task and understand task
 * Implement task
 * Writing the code
 * Testing
 * Design may be required
 * Sprint planning, daily sync meeting with lead

What makes this role interesting

 * Aviation and safety related, Gen AI being used


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