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That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. \n10047\nBasic qualifications\n- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience\n- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience\n- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience\n- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team\n- Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders\n- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (developing AI agents a plus)\n- Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering\nPreferred qualifications\n- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent\n- Experience working with AWS Services\n- Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale\n- Background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency\n- Experience architecting and delivering complex, multi-component systems in customer production environments\n- Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go\n- Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships\n- 3+ years of experience working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment\nAmazon is an equal opportunities employer. 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