Application Developer, US Federal, ProServe

Amazon - Annapolis, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Annapolis, MD

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About the position

The Application Developer position within AWS Professional Services focuses on building cloud-native applications and assisting customers in architecting, developing, and re-engineering applications to leverage the AWS Cloud effectively. This role involves working on high-profile projects, collaborating with various teams, and utilizing AWS services to create scalable and efficient applications.

Responsibilities

• Work as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Lead technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of new technologies and practices.
• Architect and build highly scalable, cloud-native applications on the AWS platform using core developer services such as API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and ECS.
• Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices).
• Migrate monolithic applications to microservices architectures.
• Advise on implementing AWS best practices.
• Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your application development expertise.
• Represent the voice for developers internally and influence AWS Professional Services offerings and AWS product strategy for developers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of large scale software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more modern programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Swift, Node.js, Python, Go, or Ruby.
• 3+ years of experience as a technical specialist in customer-facing roles.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Cloud development experience.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 8+ years of large scale software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more modern programming languages.
• Architecting, designing, and developing applications on the AWS platform and possess Cloud certifications.
• Designing and building applications using Container and serverless technologies.
• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability.
• Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration, and automated deployment.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and arrangements
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Work-life balance support