Sr. Software Development Engineer, Payment Acceptance & Experience

Are you interested in being part of a fast paced technology company offering the next generation of online payment systems and services? Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the global leader in e-commerce.
Our Consumer Payments team is looking for a motivated individual to join our Payments Portal Team in Seattle, Washington. The selected candidate will act as a Software Development Engineer, designing and developing software solutions with an emphasis on enabling rapid integration and zero/low cost feature expansion for clients of the payments platform. This wide ranging role has exciting opportunities all the way from Front End UI elements to backend high throughput and high availability services.
We build systems that process payments at an unprecedented scale, with accuracy, speed, and mission-critical availability. We innovate to improve customer experience across the globe, with support for currency choice, in-store payments, pay on delivery, credit and debit payments, seller disbursements, gift cards, and many new exciting and challenging ideas are in the works.
The Amazon Payments Platform processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars moving at light-speed through our systems annually. Come challenge yourself in our team-oriented atmosphere, and watch yourself grow with one of the fastest growing areas of the Amazon e-commerce services platform.

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4+ year relevant work experience

• 8+ years professional experience in software development

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design

• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures

• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, Perl, Scala

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability and adherence to development goals.
Must be able to independently design code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes. Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc)
Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
Provide on-call production support for payment platform applications
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
Familiarity with Javascript, Jquery or similar beneficial
Experience in UI design or User Interaction is beneficial
Experience with Security, Authentication or Authorization mechanism beneficial
Strong written/spoken communication skills
Experience with system architecture/design
Experience with distributed systems operating in a scalable/high volume environment