Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Leo
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in software development life cycle and 3+ years programming; preferred: 5+ years in software development life cycle and 2+ years contributing to systems architecture and design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Build and operate Java backend-for-frontend APIs that orchestrate downstream services for Amazon Leo’s customer-facing e-commerce experience.
What you'll do
- Design, deploy, and operate gateway APIs; integrate downstream services and translate and compose their responses.
- Manage distributed-system failures, retries, timeouts, latency, and reliability across service dependencies.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and partner teams; review code, coach teammates, and document and support the platform.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- 3+ years programming in a modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience testing back end services.
Nice to have
- Experience with test-driven development, dependency injection, API modeling, and clean layering.
- Experience building API gateway, orchestration, or backend-for-frontend services integrating many downstream dependencies.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, C#, AWS
AI focus
Use agentic development workflows and generative AI tools to accelerate delivery; invest in AI-based development and operational workflows.
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