Amazon Software Development Engineer III Digital Payments Emerging Markets 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

411556581

Key job responsibilities
- Refine ambiguous requirements and define system architecture.- Be responsible for technical problem solving and meeting product objectives.
- Developing and driving adoption of engineering best practices
- Write exemplary code in terms of code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation.- Mentor other developers.
- Own and maintain the systems that you build.A day in the lifeYou challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions. This highly visible role requires frequent communication with senior leadership in order to help shape and deliver on the product roadmap, and requires you to nimbly switch between strategic and tactical initiatives to achieve technical, business, and customer experience goals. You'll be given the unique opportunity to own and drive initiatives across the several marketplaces as a whole -- from algorithmic innovation, all the way down to the datasets that the back-end services consume.Mentorship& Career Growth
Work Life Balance
We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Seattle, WA, USA

- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
- Strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills and an ability to come up with creative solutions to impossible-to-solve problems.
- Experience developing high quality design and implementations that scale.
- Experience with scalable distributed systems and service oriented architectures.

- 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Eager to learn and learn fast, enjoy a fast paced environment.
- Self-directed, demonstrate leadership potential and a team player.
- A high degree of pragmatism in building the simplest thing that does the job; we want to use technology to solve real-world problems expediently, not indulge in over-designed, unnecessarily intricate software architecture.
- Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.
- Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.