Software Dev Engineer II, Unified Payments Experience (UPX)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on delivering innovative payment solutions. In this role, you will leverage cutting-edge cloud technologies and work collaboratively with various teams to create highly scalable software systems. You will be responsible for designing and developing features that enhance customer engagement while ensuring reliability and low latency. This is an exciting opportunity to tackle complex engineering challenges and contribute to a culture of innovation and excellence within a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about software development and eager to make an impact, this role is for you.

Benefits

Health Care Plans

Equity Compensation

Flexible Work Hours

Professional Development Opportunities

Employee Discounts

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience with a focus on scalability.
• Experience in design patterns and system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable software systems to support Amazon's growth.
• Design payment experiences collaborating with multiple teams.

Skills

Software Development

Systems Design

Programming Languages

CI/CD

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Services

Open Source Frameworks

Reactive Native

Job description

Software Dev Engineer II, Unified Payments Experience (UPX)

Job ID: 2941540 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Do you enjoy working on the latest cloud technologies, collaborating with multiple partner teams, and delivering impactful solutions that drive customer engagement? Are you a tenured software development engineer? If so, continue reading.

UPX (Unified Payments eXperience) team is growing, modernizing the architecture with the use of bleeding edge technologies. We are looking for exceptional talent to rapidly build applications that use exciting new AWS services, Reactive Native technology, Open Source frameworks, and Server-less architecture. We solve complex engineering problems from securing customer’s PII end to end to building a highly reliable set of Tier-1 services with 5 9s availability. Innovation is in our DNA and every day we solve challenging engineering problems.

As a Software Development Engineer within UPX team, you will solve unique and complex problems at a rapid pace, utilizing the latest technologies to create solutions that are highly scalable. You will design and develop product features, building for scale, efficiency, and differentiated customer experience.

We’re thus looking for software engineers passionate about building software solutions end-to-end, have strong software development experience delivering at scale solutions, and systems design skills. You should have a demonstrated ability to deliver end customer facing features with high quality. You will be involved in all phases of Software Development life Cycle, from scoping requirements, requirement analysis, design, development, test, CI/CD, security implementation, and operational excellence with the ability to work cross-functionally as well as with Product Managers, business stakeholders and other tech teams through the actual launch of the project.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will:

1. Build highly scalable software systems to meet the rapid growth of Amazon's Business.
2. Evolve and build services that are highly reliable and extremely low latency.
3. Design the direction of the payment experience working with multiple different teams across the company.
4. Build the next generation systems for simplifying customer's payment experience and enable rapid experimentation.

A day in the life

You will be working in a fast-paced environment, on a team of smart software engineers, to design and build the right technical solutions to meet the needs of the business. You will have direct ownership over the design of new components aimed at improving the platform's extensibility, scalability, availability, and latency.

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.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit here for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit here.

Posted: March 18, 2025 (Updated 15 minutes ago)