Software Development Engineer - II, Amazon

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic engineering team focused on revolutionizing global payments solutions for customers. This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects that enhance the payment experience across various platforms. As a Software Development Engineer, you will lead a talented group of developers to create scalable solutions that meet the demands of millions of users. With a focus on best practices in coding and system performance optimization, you will play a critical role in delivering high-quality software that drives significant business value. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience required.
• Experience with design patterns and system architecture is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services for payment solutions.
• Design and develop APIs for system integration and optimization.

Skills

Software Development

API Design

Backend Services Development

Web Services

System Performance Optimization

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Testing Frameworks

Job description

Software Development Engineer - II, Amazon

Want to be part of a dynamic development environment within Amazon and be at the forefront of building new, innovative global payments products and solutions?
Amazon Payment Products team at Bangalore is looking for developers to design and build next generation global payments solutions that revolutionize the way customers pay. The Amazon Payments Team manages all Amazon branded payment offerings, globally. These offerings are growing rapidly and we are continuously adding new market-leading features and launching new products. Our payments products (Amazon Co-Branded Credit Cards, Private Labeled Credit Cards, Non-Amazon Branded Credit Cards, Shop with Points and Foreign Exchange) provide the most innovative payment experience on and off Amazon. We manage a financial services ad serving platform (100+ billions of impressions per year) through Amazon’s purchase path where we offer Amazon branded and non-branded payment products and services.
As we build innovative payments solutions for our customers, the role provides a huge opportunity for the developers to build a strong portfolio of patents for Amazon. The role will also include defining and implementing extensible, multi-faceted solutions that support global and region specific payments specific protocols and workflows. This is a critical program for Consumer Payments, with high leadership visibility, and opportunity for delivering significant business value.
We are looking for passionate, experienced software developers that can lead a team of developers in delivering high quality software solutions to support variety of customer use cases and are scalable to handle amazon volume.
Developers in the team need a strong understanding of Computer fundamentals and practical experience in building full stack, large scale distributed systems. Experience with web-based applications and/or web services-based applications, especially at massive scale, is also helpful.

Key job responsibilities

1. Develop and maintain backend services
2. Create and optimize rendering solutions for multiple channels
3. Design and develop APIs for system integration
4. Write clean, maintainable code following best practices
5. Implement monitoring and alerting mechanisms
6. Optimize system performance for high-traffic applications
7. Contribute to continuous improvement of development practices
8. Support, troubleshoot and maintain production system health as part of on-call

About the team

We are a dynamic engineering team focused on building and maintaining an innovative merchandising automation platform powered by machine learning. Our system serves millions of customers by delivering personalized recommendations and content across various digital shopping channels.
Our mission is to create the world's most sophisticated merchandising engine for financial products. We leverage latest technology to match customers with relevant offers through intelligent content optimization and personalized messaging.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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