Description

As a Principal Software Engineer within the AWS Payments organization at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will help us to deliver on our mission to enable AWS customers to manage their payments swiftly, providing them with payment capabilities that adapt to the diverse type of needs our customers have: from the university student to the big enterprise who want payment flexibility, grouping and automation. As a Principal Engineer (PE) on the AWS Payments team, you will join other PEs to define a technical strategy that simplifies our architecture and lead the implementation of the most strategic projects in the organization. In doing so, you will have a profound impact on the AWS business by enabling service teams to innovate faster and customers to get more out of AWS.

Principal Engineers in AWS are fundamentally passionate about designing scalable and resilient platforms, innovating and supporting new product architectures and business models, and doing so in a generalizable way that enables platform clients to innovate in ways we may not have foreseen. You’ll think globally, ensuring we build high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. We are looking for pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you’re hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

• Own the design and hands-on development of significant architecture, frameworks, and components.

• Serve as a leader and mentor for other engineers in their areas of work.

• Help set the features, design, and best practices of the team, and have significant influence on our overall strategy.

• Code and test system components; participate in code and design reviews.

• Demonstrate ownership of end-to-end code quality, system tests, functional tests, and integration.

• Collaborate with UX and product teams to build and invent new solutions and applications that put customers first

A day in the life

A day in the life

As a Principal Engineer on our team, you will work with leaders across the AWS Commerce Platform to define our business and architecture vision. You will balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. You will own the architecture, existing and future, for our platform components. You will share your updates with AWS leadership, get buy-in, and work with all stakeholder teams to maintain AWS’ status as industry leader.

You will be the responsible for mentoring the top engineers across the organization, establish and demand best practices through your engineering leadership. You will immerse yourself in your team’s entire software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact. You’ll strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment. You will take on the most challenging design and development problems personally and lead by example to deliver exceptional results that reflect a keen understanding of our customers’ needs and our business vision.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New York, NY, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)

• Experience in full-stack mobile development- android /iOS or modern web browsers and services mainly in Java in a Linux or Unix environment

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $160,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $311,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.