Software Development Engineer, Ring Neighbors

Software Development Engineer, Ring Neighbors

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Ring Neighbors is looking to add a Software Development Engineer to our rapidly growing development team. Ring Neighbors (), launched in 2018, is a hyperlocal social networking app providing real‑time crime and safety alerts from neighbors and public safety agencies. With Neighbors, you can always know when and where things are happening in your area, and share updates to keep you and your community informed.

The Neighbors app is available on iOS (4.8 stars), Android (4.6 stars), recently launched on Web, and is also included as an embedded experience within the Ring app. Neighbors is used by millions of people each month.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap, and development of core services s role involves design, architecture, implementation, and operation of the large‑scale cloud systems that make our neighborhood safer. You will be given the opportunity to autonomously deliver the technical direction of these services and the feature roadmap. You will work with extraordinary talent and have the opportunity to hire and shape the team to best execute on the product.

The team owns services built primarily in Go and Python, regularly utilizes Lambdas as part of an event‑driven architecture, and delivers backend services and web tools used by internal customers (Neighbors Administrators, and Neighbors News Team). Moderation tooling includes a machine learning (ML) component ripe for future investment. The team leverages a rich set of AWS services in its solutions, including S3, Dynamo

DB, SQS, Kinesis, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, Elastic Search, Lambda, Cloud Auth, Redshift, Athena, and Amazon’s standard Builder Hub Tools. The team consists of backend, full‑stack, and front‑end developers.

• Strong foundation in software development, design patterns, and cloud computing.
• Experience working with large‑scale cloud systems, understanding how to architect and build them.
• Highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities.
• Knows what is important when shipping products to customers and has been through the process from start to finish.
• Promotes robust and maintainable code, clear documentation, and can deliver high‑quality work on tight schedules.
• Comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership, and never shies away from a challenge.

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

USA, CA, Hawthorne –  –  USD annually. 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.

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