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 fun 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
1. Work with the customers in the Payroll space to understand and disambiguate their problems

2. Help in identifying the solution to our customers' problems

3. Design high-level and low-level application application architecture to to address functional and non-functional requirements

4. Coding and reviewing code of your peers to implement the solution

5. Write automated unit test cases

6. Deliver the solution to production using the best Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment patterns- 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, Mongo DB, 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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