Do you want to build products that solve meaningful business challenges and improve productivity across Amazon?
Amazon Legal Technologies is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join our team building mission-critical services that transform how legal and business operations work at Amazon. Our systems process over millions transactions annually, serving thousands of daily users. We manage the contract lifecycle across Amazon.
As an SDE II, you'll design and deliver features that directly impact how Amazon makes critical business decisions. You'll work across our full technology stack—from feature-rich web portals where users create and manage workflows using templates, to APIs serving hundreds of active clients, to notification systems for real-time updates. You'll leverage AI technologies to improve customer experience, automate routine operations, and drive efficiency gains across the organization.
Amazon Legal Technologies is an innovative and high-energy team that supports Amazon's legal operations worldwide. We focus on easy-to-use, highly secure, and ingenious solutions that allow our business to efficiently scale for the future. We're looking for an engineer who is excited by unique challenges and passionate about using the latest technologies—including AI focused development to solve real customer needs.
Key job responsibilities
Own Technical Delivery
- Design and implement features for legal technology platforms including workflow automation, template systems, and advanced search
- Take end-to-end ownership from design through deployment, maintaining 99.9% availability
- Build secure, scalable solutions using AWS services and distributed systems
- Instrument code with metrics to drive data-driven decisions
- Build AI-driven features that reduce processing time and automate routine decisions
- Leverage AI to Transform Operations
Collaborate and Grow
- Partner with Legal, Finance, and business teams to solve workflow challenges
- Mentor junior engineers and participate in code reviews
- Learn from senior engineers and Principal Engineers through design reviews
- Drive adoption of new capabilities across the organization
Operational Excellence
- Participate in on-call rotations for 24/7 reliability
- Monitor system health and respond to operational issues
- Use metrics to identify improvement opportunities
- Maintain systems built on NAWS infrastructure
