Software Development Engineer, Amazon Payroll Tech Job ID: | Amazon Spain Services, S.L.U.
Now hiring in sunny Barcelona!
As one of the world's fastest-growing companies, Amazon now employs more than 1.6 million people worldwide, with a remarkable 24% year-over-year growth. This unprecedented scale and growth rate creates unique challenges for our engineering organization. As the team responsible for building systems that ensure accurate and timely payments for all Amazonians globally, we tackle complex technical challenges that are unmatched in scope and scale anywhere else in the world.
As Amazonians, we innovate on behalf of our customers. Take Anytime Pay as just one example - a solution that lets employees access their earnings right when they earn them. We're also putting machine learning to work, ensuring accurate payments at a scale that most companies can't imagine. While others see payroll as just another back-office function, we're turning it into a space where innovation actually matters and makes a difference.
Join our Barcelona hub, working alongside our integral teams in Seattle and India. As part of this growing team, you'll design, develop, and deliver solutions to complex and ambiguous problems with the highest standards.
Key job responsibilities




Partner with customers in the Payroll space to understand and clarify their business needs
Design innovative solutions that address customer problems
Design high-level and low-level application architecture to address functional and non-functional requirements
Write high-quality code and conduct peer code reviews to maintain engineering excellence
Develop comprehensive automated test suites to ensure code quality
Deploy and operate production solutions, ensuring high availability and reliability through best practices in Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and operational excellence
About the team Our Barcelona team brings together Software Engineers, Technical Program Management, and Software Development Management, working closely with Principal Engineers, Senior Leaders, and Product teams worldwide. We partner with Operations and HR stakeholders to drive payroll technology at Amazon.
Our results show our impact - we automated the employee termination process in the US, ensuring final payments meet regulatory requirements. Now, we're expanding this solution globally while tackling new challenges.
Our mission is to build modular components that enable end-to-end automation of payroll processes. We're creating the foundation for touchless payroll operations and real-time

📌 Software Development Engineer, Amazon Payroll Tech (Barcelona)
🏢 Amazon
📍 Barcelona