Software Dev Engineer, Digital Acceleration Payments

We are looking for a passionate and talented Software Development Engineer II to join the Digital Acceleration (DA) Payments team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain highly scalable and reliable payment systems that power customer payment experiences across Amazon's global marketplace.

As an SDE on our team, you will own the end-to-end delivery of features and services — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational excellence. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, senior engineers, and partner teams to solve complex problems in the payments domain.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, high-availability distributed systems that support payment processing and integration workflows
- Own and deliver medium-to-large technical projects with minimal guidance, driving them from concept to production
- Contribute to system architecture decisions and participate in design reviews
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while upholding high engineering standards
- Improve operational excellence by building monitoring, alarming, and automation to ensure the reliability of our services
- Mentor junior engineers on the team and contribute to a culture of continuous learning
- Collaborate with partner teams across the DA Payments organization to deliver cross-team initiatives

A day in the life
The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, or experience communicating results to senior leadership

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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