Software Dev Engineer I

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a leading company to develop innovative payment solutions. As a developer, you'll work on customer-facing features and collaborate with talented engineers to enhance user experiences. This role offers the chance to impact millions of customers while working in a creative, startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Manage overall development life cycle of the solution.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to design innovative products.
• Instil best practices for software development and documentation.

Skills

Software Development

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS Elastic Search

Lambda

ECS

Dynamo DB

Job description

Job ID: 2910605 | Amazon Pay (India) Private Limited - D32

This is a contract role --12 months direct contract role on Amazon's pay roll.

Want to be part of a dynamic start-up environment and aspire to build high quality, resilient, low latency and innovative solutions which can scale for next 100M payers? If yes, we at Amazon Pay India are in process of building greenfield solution which can scale to next level. We aspire to design solutions which scale for every Indian and help grow our business multi-fold in near future to revolutionise Digital Payments in India by making every payment transaction trusted, convenient and rewarding. Amazon Pay India org is in process of expanding their footprint in NCR regions and looking for passionate, experienced, talented engineers with the desire to make big difference in a fast-paced environment. This is a rare opportunity to be part of the team that will be responsible for building a successful, sustainable, strategic and independently profitable business at 10x scale in next 2-3 years. The ideal candidate will be working to shape the product, innovate on behalf of customers and will be actively involved in defining key product features that impact our business. You will work with highly talented engineers to evolve the design and implementation of the products owned by this team and responsible for setting up and holding a high-quality bar in a highly technical team of Software Engineers. Team Impact Amazon Pay Rewards Team has a bold vision to make every customer transaction rewarding and every reward financially sustainable. To execute on this vision, Amazon India Rewards team is systematically investing and building product innovation in areas of instant bank discount, No Cost EMI and Exchange Discount . During large promotional events like Diwali, these are the key customer levers to drive shoppers to Amazon. As a result, Amazon Pay has grown rapidly. It has enabled over 5 million neighbourhood stores. It’s revenue grew over 64 per cent to Rs 1,370 crore over Rs 834.5 crore in fiscal 2019. You work will have a deep impact on how millions of customers shop on Amazon. Amazon Pay Rewards was launched in Mar 2019. In less than three years, we had major positive impact on customer acquisition, engagement and retention strategy for Amazon India. Customers love the rewards that we offer and our product is used by tens of millions of users in India. This roles allows you to work on product and services that are closely connected to customers and you will have the opportunity to be both the customers and the builder. Your role As a developer in this team you will work with highly talented team of engineers, managers, product owners and designers to build and improve customer facing features like Instant Bank Discount, No Cost EMI and Exchange Discount. If you are looking for a creative, startup-like work environment and want to be at the center of Amazon innovation, this is the place to be! Our engineers own the rewards experience and work on a wide range of technologies (including AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, EDP, SQS, Dynamo DB, Slapshot, Herd, Horizonte etc.) and build and operate highly scalable, low latency mobile first products and services. You will take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery and support of the rewards platform. In this role you will collaborate with leaders, work backwards from customers, influence product requirements, identify problems, propose innovative solutions, relentlessly raise standards. Apart of technical challenges, you will also get a chance to work on mathematical, economic and gamification models to engage more customers in an economically sustainable way.

Key job responsibilities
Overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact
Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
Instil best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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