Software Development Engineer, Payments Acceptance and Experience

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in e-commerce seeks a Software Development Engineer to help build the next-gen online payment system. The role requires designing and implementing software that handles millions of transactions. Candidates should have a strong software development background with qualifications in computer science. Join a team-oriented environment that fosters growth and innovation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• 2+ years in design or architecture.
• Experience programming with at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed software applications.
• Estimate engineering effort and plan implementations.
• Provide on-call production support for payment platform applications.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Reliability

Scaling

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Payments Acceptance and Experience

Want to participate in building the next generation of online payment system that supports numerous countries and payment methods? We are seeking talented software engineers to join one of the fastest growing areas in Amazon’s e-commerce services platform. We offer competitive salary and benefits, outstanding career and growth opportunities and an exciting and team-oriented atmosphere.
We want to move all the money in the world! We deliver game-changing financial processing power for the some of the world’s largest technology platforms including Amazon.com, Amazon Kindle, and Amazon Web Services.
We build systems that process payments at an unprecedented scale, with accuracy, speed, and mission-critical availability. We innovate to improve customer experience across the globe, with support for currency choice, in-store payments, pay on delivery, credit and debit payments, seller disbursements, gift cards, and many new exciting and challenging ideas are in the works.
The Amazon Payments processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars moving at light-speed through our systems annually. Come challenge yourself in our team-oriented atmosphere, and watch yourself grow with one of the fastest growing areas of the Amazon e-commerce services platform.


Key job responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
- Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed software applications.
- Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
- Must be able to independently design code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
- Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc.,).
- Provide on-call production support for payment platform applications

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ 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

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