Software Development Engineer, Amazon Payments - Unified Payments Experience Tech

The Amazon Payments Unified Paying experinece Tech Teams vision is to delight our customers with the best payment experience in the world. To achieve this vision we are in search of a talented technical leader and craftsman who builds robust software that scales as well as client-facing features which are intuitive and simple to use.

Our team takes a world view of payments for all of Amazon and builds highly customized and seamless payment experiences for our global customers. This focus on customer and geography requires working on different technologies and back-end platform systems in order to meet the needs of our customers. You will have a chance to understand and influence Amazons Stack across Retail and Digital business.

As part of this role you will be a full-stack developer with opportunities to work on tier-1 services we own along with various AWS-tech. You will interact with with senior engineers Principal Engineer(s) and learn about how payments works in Amazon. If you are someone who will enjoy the challenge of working on complex and highly disparate technologies from front-end development to back-end highly distributed systems and is interested in a high growth career opportunity and enjoy building software that brings smiles to our customers.

Interested in building payment experiences that works across continents across businesses and across devices - Do join us!!

The ideal candidate will have strong distributed systems and web services design and implementation experience as well as experience working on high availability production systems.

Experience using technologies and frameworks such as React React Native Cloud native products such as AWS Lambda and DynamoDB would be an added advantage.



Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Design and Development: SDE2s are responsible for designing developing and implementing complex payments software systems and features that works across Desktop Mobile eReader Alexa and 1P & 3P TVs. This involves writing high-quality scalable and maintainable code in various programming languages and frameworks used at Amazon. E.g. React React Native Cloud native products such as AWS Lambda and DynamoDB
-Solving and Troubleshooting: SDE2s analyze and troubleshoot technical issues identify root causes and devise effective solutions to address them. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve problems and ensure the smooth operation of the systems.
Contributions: SDE2s contribute to the overall system architecture making decisions on technology choices design patterns and software infrastructure. They provide technical guidance and recommendations to their teams.
Development Practices: SDE2s are expected to participate actively in Agile software development processes such as sprint planning daily standups code reviews and retrospectives. They work closely with product managers designers and other engineers to deliver high-quality software.
and Knowledge Sharing: Experienced SDE2s often mentor and guide junior developers sharing their technical expertise and best practices. They collaborate with the team to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Support: SDE2s may be involved in operational tasks such as monitoring system performance investigating incidents and implementing improvements to ensure high availability and reliability of the applications.
Improvement: SDE2s stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends technologies and methodologies. They actively participate in initiatives to streamline processes improve development practices and enhance the overall software development lifecycle.

- 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
- 3 years of building complex software systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.