Software Dev Engineer III, Amazon Payment Services

Amazon; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Amazon in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design large-scale, distributed payment systems with a strong focus on information security.

You will lead technical direction, shape architecture and own major deliverables end-to-end while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product and security teams. This role offers cloud-native challenges in a fast-paced environment and opportunities for impact across global digital payments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of systems.
• Experience as a mentor or tech lead within an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure, scalable distributed payment solutions on cloud platforms.
• Lead end-to-end development lifecycle and manage complex projects.
• Collaborate with security engineers and product managers on roadmaps.
• Create technical designs and approaches for new product development.
• Establish best practices for software development, documentation, and quality.
• Ensure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work on time.
• Coordinate feature planning, stakeholder communication and commitments.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring production services.

Skills

Software development

Programming experience

Architecture leadership

Mentorship/tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Amazon is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to design and build large-scale, distributed computing solutions with a focus on information security within the digital payments domain. In this role, you will drive the team's technical direction, shape long-term architecture and vision, and own major deliverables end-to-end. You will provide technical leadership to the engineering team and drive roadmaps for secure, scalable payment solutions powered by cloud computing.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and develop highly secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for digital payment solutions using cloud computing technologies
• Drive the overall development lifecycle of solutions and manage complex projects from inception to delivery
• Collaborate with security engineers and product managers to develop strategy and roadmaps for secure customer-facing solutions
• Partner with engineering peers to develop technical designs and approaches for new product development
• Establish and promote best practices for software development, documentation, and code quality
• Ensure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work within defined timelines
• Manage project prioritization, planning of features, stakeholder communication, and tracking of commitments
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring and operation of production services

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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Job ID: A10561512