Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Payroll Tech

Payroll Tech is on a mission to build fully integrated payroll systems to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing for all Amazonians. The aim is to build a near-touchless processing ecosystem that automates payroll operations across several countries. To accomplish the mission, we are looking for a passionate SDE with deep technical expertise, excellent leadership skills, and ability to hit the ground running.

In this role, you will be the technical leader responsible for service design, development, and operations. You will brainstorm new ideas and work on forward looking architectures and design with Principal Engineers and other Senior Software Engineers. You will architect, analyze, design, develop, test, and deploy software features and fix defects. You will participate and lead in sprint planning and daily scrum, break down technical work, identify technical blockers, and navigate solutions. You will mentor team members. You will partner with your managers, other technical leaders across the org to achieve a desired technical consensus. You will author docs to communicate vision, proposals and designs.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will -
- Design and build scalable, reliable solutions for complex business needs

- Own and contribute to the architecture and implementation of Payroll systems

- Partner with cross-functional teams to understand challenges and develop thoughtful, effective solutions

- Apply AI and automation capabilities to improve communication and system experiences

- Support the growth of other engineers through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and code reviews

- Influence technical decisions with a balanced focus on security, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability

About the team
Payroll Tech acts as tech partner to Amazon Payroll organization and is developing first of its kind 1P systems to streamline payroll processing and provide excellent pay experience to Amazonians. The 2-pizza team you would join will be focussed on building systems to track and monitor that Amazonians are getting paid on-time, accurately, and in compliance with the regulations applicable to the country/state.

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

- 4+ years of full stack development experience
- 4+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

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