Candidate Applications (CAP) team owns systems that enable candidates, both internal and external, to submit applications to the jobs they are interested in. CAP also owns services that sync and vend candidate application and candidate answers to downstream systems. Our stakeholders include the Employer Brand teams, Employee Referral Program (ERP), Legal, Compliance, Immigration, Recruiters, Workplace privacy and other recruiting teams. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help us drive improvements to the candidate experience at Amazon.Key job responsibilitiesTo be successful on this journey, you should love having high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and always look for opportunities to make our services better. You are deeply customer focused: understand multiple customers' challenges and you are constantly looking for ways to pursue them. You will:- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all deliverables;- Work with the product managers to refine the business and functional requirements and translate those into technical specifications;- Work closely with senior engineers to design, implement and deploy applications that impact the candidate application experience;- Contribute to the management and execution of project plans and delivery commitments;- Own the delivery of an integral piece of a system or application;- Create and execute appropriate quality plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts;- Mentor and coach other engineers.A day in the lifeAs a Software Development Engineer, you will contribute to all aspects of the software development lifecycle including building an architectural vision and roadmap, advocating for our candidates, clarifying requirements, applying design patterns, development, documentation, testing, and continuously improving our operations. You will leverage Amazon's industry leading technologies to build systems at scale. You will use your strong verbal and written communication skills, to mentor engineers on the team, partner with Product Managers, and promote the operational excellence of the system we operate.About the teamAt Amazon Recruiting Engine (RE), CXT's parent organization, we are customer obsessed and we think big. On our journey to lead the recruiting industry, we build new ways for modeling the Amazon candidate experience. As part of the Amazon People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization, we directly influence the future growth of Amazon and to achieve this goal we are seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE) to join our team.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Irvine, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA- 2+ 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- Experience programming with at least one software programming language- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalentOur 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 medic