Software Development Engineer - II, Amazon

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is transforming the global payments landscape. As a Software Development Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and building innovative payment solutions that enhance customer experiences. This position offers the chance to work on large-scale distributed systems, ensuring they are efficient and scalable to handle high traffic. You will collaborate with a dynamic team, contributing to the development of APIs and backend services while following best practices in coding and system design. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with design patterns, reliability, and scaling.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Software Development

API Development

Full Stack Development

Distributed Systems

Web Services

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Monitoring Tools

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

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
- 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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