Senior Software Engineer , Translation Services

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Description

Translation Services seeks a passionate Software Development Engineer to drive innovations in translation to reach every Amazon customer in their own language.

Key job responsibilities

Are you passionate about creating high-performance, large-scale language translation services to support Amazon's current and future growth? Do you thrive in environments where you can lead innovation? If so, we're seeking a software engineer to join the Translation Services (TS) team.

TS provides technology solutions and services that deliver quality translations at the lowest possible cost for Amazon businesses. As a Software Development Engineer, you'll help drive efforts to build translations solutions at Amazon scale with 100% translations coverage, eventually making translations a no-op for developers so that they can focus on business logic and application building.

We're seeking a passionate software engineer comfortable with ambiguity, possessing strong attention to detail, who can set and drive right engineering culture within the team ensuring that secondary language experiences match the excellence of primary language experiences, even at Amazon's vast scale.

About The Team

We have nine talented engineering teams spread across Seattle, WA and Hyd, India. Both these locations have a great office space where we collaborate.

Our vision: Language will not stand in the way of anyone on earth using Amazon products and services.

Our mission: We are the enablers and guardians of translation for Amazon's customers. We do this by offering hands-off-the-wheel service to all Amazon teams, optimizing translation quality and speed at the lowest cost possible.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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 equivalent
  
  

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