Youth Apprentice, Software Development, Amazon Key/Ring SMB

We are excited to offer a unique opportunity to communities where our customers live and work. The Amazon JumpStart youth apprenticeship program hires high school students to work as employees at our corporate offices to accelerate their future -providing a head start in their educational and career pursuits, beginning in high school. Youth apprentices should expect to work after school Monday-Thursday, up to 16 hours per week, typically between 2:00pm-6:00pm ET. Our affiliated partners work with participating schools to avoid scheduling conflicts between work and school. Your manager will communicate specific team norms like working hours. We believe that youth apprentices are much more likely to understand our unique culture and become part of it if they are surrounded by other Amazonians in person. Therefore, all youth apprenticeship opportunities require in-person attendance
Software Development Engineer (SDE) Apprenticeships
At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our youth apprentices write real software and collaborate with experienced software development engineers (SDEs) who guide apprentices on real-world projects as they learn on-the-job.
As a youth apprentice, you will be matched to a manager and a mentor. You will have the opportunity to influence the evolution of Amazon technology and lead critical projects early in your career. As a Software Development Engineer (Junior Coder), your design and code could help build systems that: spot important patterns in data, automate and speed up tasks, make systems run smoothly even with many users, and keep systems secure. – just to name a few. You will have the opportunity to engage with Amazonians for both personal and professional development, expand your network, and participate in activities with other apprentices throughout your apprenticeship.
We ask that applicants for our software development (Junior Coder) roles have minimum experience with one coding language. Applicants may be considered for several roles across Amazon teams, including but not limited to the Junior Coder role. Any preferences are based on business availability and are not guaranteed.
Hired apprentices may participate in an extended onboarding and period upon starting at Amazon, facilitated by our program, their direct manager, or broader team. Hired apprentices should anticipate 6+ months of continued learning and development after they start at Amazon in addition to any assigned work.
Hired apprentices will participate in an extended onboarding and period upon starting at Amazon and 6+ months of continued training facilitated by our program, their direct manager, and broader team in addition to assigned tasks.
About the team
The Amazon JumpStart youth apprenticeship program is an education and career options multiplier for students. We believe that a youth apprenticeship should be an accelerant to education and career success, not cause tension. Our model enables youth apprentices to take ownership of their futures as they select the best option to accelerate their career paths, prospects for higher education, and beyond. We accomplish this by working in concert with secondary education systems and offering flexible work options for our apprentices who pursue college.
As an Amazon apprentice, you will have the opportunity to engage with Amazonians for both personal and professional development, expand your professional network, and participate in activities with other youth apprentices throughout your apprenticeship.
College-bound students should anticipate a potential reduction in work hours in year 2 of the program to accommodate their class schedules but with prior approval from their manager (12 work hours/week min. - 16 hours/week max.). Participating students must work in-person in years 1 and 2 of the program whether in high school or college. After 1 year, a college-bound student may pursue, but is not limited to, the following options:

1. Continue/complete Amazon apprenticeship-only: Students who are undecided on their future education, career prospects, or defer a college acceptance can leverage year 2 to complete their apprenticeship while fielding career-readiness advice from Amazonians from diverse backgrounds. However, we strongly encourage college attendance for youth apprentices either during or after the apprenticeship.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities will vary from team-to-team but may include but are not limited to:
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and/or bring innovative products and services to market.
• Contribute to the design and build of innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment
• Build systems that store and search data, are user-friendly, and allow for efficient storage
• Ability to design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to learn and deliver high-quality software
• Attend weekly stand-up meetings with software development teams where/if applicable.
• Learn new or reinforce previous exposure to coding for front and/or back-end web development, mobile apps, or client-interfacing mechanisms (e.g., Python, Kotlin, Swift, C++, CSS, Java, JavaScript, HTML, C#)
• Leverage internal tools Amazon’s builders and customers use every day (e.g., AWS Cloud, services, terminology)
• Exercise professional development skills within a corporate environment.
• Demonstrate computational thinking skills and apply them to real-world work scenarios and projects