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1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

The Amazon Digital & Emerging Payments Tech Team’s 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 engineer 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 geography and customer requires working on different technologies & back-end systems in order to meet the needs of our customers. Our back-end systems are always available and guarantee that our customer’s orders are never lost and always processed even when downstream services are down.
Our team is highly motivated and in need of a engineer who can take the technical reigns of the team and steer them in the direction of our vision.
You are a technical leader and craftsman with a proven track record of successful delivery. You are someone who will enjoy the challenge of working on complex and highly disparate technologies - from front-end to back-end highly distributed systems. You are security-conscious and continually analyze software for potential threats to safeguard customer trust. You are interested in a high growth career opportunity and enjoy building software that brings smiles to our customers
Key job responsibilities
- Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for our customers.
- Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical approach for new product development to solve business problems.
- Instill best practices for software development and documentation and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables.
- Write high quality distributed system software.
- Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
- Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent