AmazonSoftware Development Engineer III, AFX Planning Tools
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer III, AFX Planning Tools in Dallas, United States. It pays $168k-$227k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this software engineer role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- Pay on this posting starts in line with the typical software engineer posting on Level.
- The posting mentions AWS, Generative AI Tools and software development among its tools and skills.
- Amazon has 21,000+ other open roles on Level.
- Posted within the past week.
AI in this role
Lead software engineering projects and incorporate generative-ai tools to accelerate delivery and simplify systems.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of multi-engineer software projects, owning your team's architectural direction and ensuring solutions are scalable, performant, and secure.
- Define and drive engineering best practices across your team, including code quality standards, operational readiness, and development processes that improve productivity and reliability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners — including product managers, technical program managers, and engineers on related teams — to align on requirements, resolve technical trade-offs, and deliver integrated solutions.
- Mentor and coach engineers on your team and beyond, providing technical guidance on system design, coding practices, and career development to strengthen overall team capability.
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies, design patterns, and generative AI tools where appropriate to simplify systems, reduce complexity, and accelerate delivery.
A day in the life
You might start your morning reviewing a design document from a teammate, offering feedback that sharpens the approach before a broader review. By mid-morning, you are deep in code — prototyping an interface that defines the boundary between two critical components. After lunch, you join a cross-team architecture discussion to align on a shared dependency, then pivot to pair-programming with a junior engineer who is tackling a tricky edge case. Your afternoon wraps up with a quick look at operational dashboards, ensuring your services are healthy and your alarms are well-tuned.
About the team
Our team builds software that matters to AWSs customers at a global scale. We value clear communication, pragmatic problem-solving, and an inclusive environment where every engineer's perspective is heard. We invest in each other's growth through mentorship, constructive code reviews, and knowledge sharing. As we look ahead, we are focused on simplifying our systems, adopting new technologies thoughtfully, and raising the bar on operational excellence. If you want to work alongside collaborative, curious engineers who care about building things the right way, this is the team for you.
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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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How we rate this
Software Development Engineer III, AFX Planning Tools at Amazon rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where system design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where scalability was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where mentoring was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used AWS in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Software Development, System Design, Scalability, Mentoring, and AWS. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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