Software Development Engineer, Time & Pay Innovation

Role overview

Software Development Engineer, Time & Pay Innovation at Amazon

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II who is a strong, independent builder with growing design maturity.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, well-tested production code using modern languages, design patterns, and frameworks.
• Design and build for scale and resilience.
• Implement patterns like backpressure, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation. * Own operational excellence for your systems.
• Monitor production health, respond to alarms, investigate root causes, and drive fixes.
• Contribute to system-level design discussions.
• Support SDE-Is through code reviews, pairing sessions, and technical guidance.
• Help them grow their skills and develop good engineering habits. * Understand and translate business requirements.
• Work with stakeholders to understand complex domain rules across punch processing, attendance, scheduling, and compliance.
• Contribute to team processes and culture.

Required qualifications

• 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

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [Telangana] [India]

About the employer

• Amazon is one of the largest employers on the planet with hundreds of thousands of employees across the globe.
• As an SDE-II in TAA, you own and deliver features across one of Amazon's most critical real-time platforms: a high-throughput, event-driven architecture processing millions of IoT punch events globally.
• About the team We are Time and Attendance (TAA) team within People eXperience Technology (PXT).
• Our team builds and operates the technology that powers how Amazon tracks, manages, and compensates employee time - globally, across all business lines and geographies.
• 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 Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
• If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

Additional role details

• Come join us in our journey to deliver solutions for one of the most complex domains in People eXperience Technology (PXT).
• Your code determines how Amazon associates get paid - accurately, on time, every single day.
• You don't just write code - you own systems.
• We own and deliver technology to manage employee time expectations and compute their pay, globally, for all our current and emerging businesses.
• At the core, we are in the business of analytics - real-time and event-driven - of data collected from IoT devices (time clocks) and web user interfaces.
• We own our own high-availability services to support this processing, and require the ability to work from replay-able, auditable "truth" for any point in an employee's timeline.
• Our business rules are complex and arcane, varying by role, business, and jurisdiction.
• We are solving all these problems at Amazon scale, an order of magnitude larger than supported by any commodity solutions and growing exponentially.
• You take ownership of significant features and components, drive them from design through production, and operate them with high standards.
• You write high-quality code, make sound technical decisions with appropriate trade-offs, and proactively improve the systems you touch.
• You are developing your ability to influence design direction, mentor junior engineers, and think beyond your immediate deliverables to the health of the broader system.
• Key job 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.
• Hold yourself and your peers to high standards through thorough code reviews. * Make sound technical decisions with appropriate trade-offs.
• Evaluate options for caching, retry strategies, concurrency, and data modeling.
• Justify your choices and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Consider failure modes, rate limits, traffic bursts, and downstream dependency health in your designs.
• Write runbooks, improve observability, and reduce operational burden over time.
• Participate actively in design reviews - propose solutions, challenge assumptions, and help the team arrive at better architectures.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs.
• Identify and resolve technical debt proactively.
• Improve code quality, simplify complex logic, optimize performance, and refactor systems to support future growth - without being asked.
• Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and on-call rotations.
• Raise the bar for engineering practices and help improve team velocity.
• A day in the life You start the day reviewing a design you wrote for a new feature in the compliance system - incorporating feedback from a senior engineer on edge cases around jurisdiction-specific rules.
• You update the design, get alignment, and start building.
• Mid-morning, you review a code change from a junior engineer, leaving constructive feedback on error handling and test coverage.
• After lunch, you investigate a latency spike in one of your services - tracing requests through logs and metrics, identifying a downstream throttling issue, and implementing a retry optimization.
• You join a design review for a cross-team project, asking questions about failure modes and proposing an alternative caching approach.
• You close the day deploying your feature to a pre-production environment, validating metrics, and updating the team on progress in standup.
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