Software Development Engineer, Payroll Tech, Payroll Tech
Amazon employs more than 1.6 million people worldwide, up 24% year-over-year. In all of history, no company this big has ever grown this fast. There are other large employers, some even bigger. There are other fast‑growing companies, some even faster.
As the engineering org responsible for building systems that help ensure all Amazonians are paid on time and accurately, we are asked to solve for challenges that no other company faces.
Also, we’re Amazonian. Our customers in Payroll expect us to innovate for them. Name another company building Anytime Pay, which we built to allow employees to withdraw pay as soon as they’ve earned it, prior to payday. Name another company using machine learning to ensure that employees are paid accurately. We really are having and making history in an area that - let's face it - is probably pretty boring at other companies.
With awesome teams already in Seattle and India, we are expanding and building a new outpost in Barcelona. Your job will be to design, develop, and deliver the solutions to complex and ambiguous problems with the highest standards.
Key job responsibilities
Work with the customers in the Payroll space to understand and disambiguate their problems
Help in identifying the solution to our customers’ problems
Design high‑level and low‑level application architecture to address functional and non‑functional requirements
Coding and reviewing code of your peers to implement the solution
Write automated unit test cases
Deliver the solution to production using the best Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment patterns
Qualifications
Experience (non‑internship) in professional software development
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object‑oriented design
Experience in writing algorithms and creating data structures
Experience with architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
Experience with relational and non‑relational databases such as Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB etc
Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience in payroll operations
Experience with AWS technologies
Experience with distributed (multi‑tiered) systems, algorithms, and databases
Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly‑available systems
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