Senior Software Development Engineer, Time & Pay Innovation

The Time and Pay Innovation team is chartered to build a world-class product that meets attendance and pay computation needs for millions of hourly associates across Amazon businesses. People Technology is the central hub for all Amazon people data. Our technology provides the foundation and orchestration for a multitude of key human resource processes from onboarding tens of thousands of temporary employees during peak holiday season to integrating critical employee data with internal and external systems. We design and build highly secure global software that allows Amazon to effectively manage the workforce resulting in a better employee experience and a better bottom line.

We are looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer to lead the design and development of Time and Pay systems at Amazons scale and complexity. These systems reside on the critical path of Amazon operations.

As a Sr. SDE you will invent new technologies and build custom solutions to help Amazon track time attendance and productivity of employees directly impacting the employee experience for millions of associates. You will own problems end-to-end and work with some of the best minds at Amazon. This role is for a full-stack senior developer with an emphasis on designing highly scalable and extensible applications. You will design flexible and scalable solutions and tackle some of the most complex challenges in computing by utilizing your skills in data structures algorithms and programming principles. Your responsibilities will span the full software development lifecycle design development testing deployment and operations. You will also have access to Principal Engineers to collaborate on ideas and discuss technical solutions.

Key job responsibilities
* Design develop and operate large-scale distributed systems that process time attendance and pay data for millions of associates worldwide
* Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of critical features from ideation through production
* Drive technical excellence by establishing best practices conducting design and code reviews and raising the engineering bar
* Mentor and develop junior engineers fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
* Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers stakeholders and partner teams to define technical roadmaps
* Identify and resolve ambiguous problems making sound trade-off decisions in a fast-paced environment

- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

- 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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