Software Development Engineer, Time & Pay Innovation

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Web Development

In short

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer II for its Time & Pay Innovation team in Hyderabad, India. This role involves designing, developing, and operating critical real-time systems that manage employee time and pay globally, using languages like Java, C#, C++, or Perl. The position requires strong ownership, technical decision-making, and a focus on scalability and resilience.

Responsibilities

Own the design and delivery of significant features and components across scalable, multi-tiered applications and services.
Drive projects from requirements through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation.
Write high-quality, well-tested production code using modern languages, design patterns, and frameworks.
Hold yourself and your peers to high standards through thorough code reviews.
Make sound technical decisions with appropriate trade-offs, evaluating options for caching, retry strategies, concurrency, and data modeling.
Design and build for scale and resilience, considering failure modes, rate limits, traffic bursts, and downstream dependency health.
Implement patterns like backpressure, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
Own operational excellence for your systems, monitoring production health, responding to alarms, investigating root causes, and driving fixes.
Write runbooks, improve observability, and reduce operational burden over time.
Contribute to system-level design discussions, participate actively in design reviews, propose solutions, challenge assumptions, and help the team arrive at better architectures.
Mentor junior engineers, supporting SDE-Is through code reviews, pairing sessions, and technical guidance.
Understand and translate business requirements, working with stakeholders to understand complex domain rules across punch processing, attendance, scheduling, and compliance.
Turn ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs.
Identify and resolve technical debt proactively, improving code quality, simplifying complex logic, optimizing performance, and refactoring systems.
Contribute to team processes and culture, participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and on-call rotations.

Requirements

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Desired Qualifications

3+ 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

Benefits

Inclusive culture empowering Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
Workplace accommodations and adjustments for candidates with disabilities.

Skills

JavaC#C++PerlObject Oriented Design

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