Software Dev Engineer II, Checkout Platform

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Amazon Checkout Platform team seeks a creative software development engineer who treats software development as a craft, cares deeply about our customers, and takes pride in both the technical and business contributions of their work.

We build multi-tiered, low latency, highly resilient distributed systems at scale and empower thousands of developers to deliver fast, reliable checkout experiences for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable services powering checkout experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Ensure high performance and reliability of critical checkout platforms.

Job description

The Amazon Checkout Platform team seeks a creative software development engineer who treats software development as a craft, cares deeply about our customers, and takes great pride in both the technical and business contributions of their work. We are a team building services and frameworks that power the mission critical Checkout experience on Amazon retail websites world-wide. This platform is used by thousands of developers across the company to delight hundreds of millions of customers across the world with innovative checkout experiences.

We offer you the opportunity to build multi-tiered, low latency, highly resilient distributed systems at scale. You will play a leading role in building solutions that make a huge, measurable impact to the shopping experience. You will build solutions that can process large volumes of data, have lightning quick response times and make the checkout process ridiculously fast and simple.

The ideal candidate will have excellent technical design, problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. In addition, the ability to work backwards and think from a customer perspective is crucial.