Software Development Engineer, Amazon Payroll Tech Job ID: **
* | Amazon Spain Services, S.
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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. 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 general teams in Seattle and India. Key job responsibilitiesPartner with customers in the Payroll space to understand and clarify their business needsDesign innovative solutions that address customer problemsDesign high-level and low-level application architecture to address functional and non-functional requirementsWrite high-quality code and conduct peer code reviews to maintain engineering excellenceDevelop comprehensive automated test suites to ensure code qualityDeploy and operate production solutions, ensuring high availability and reliability through best practices in Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and operational excellenceAbout 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 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 payment capabilities that will transform how Amazon manages compensation for its workforce.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Solid expertise in data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as Oracle, SQL, Mongo DB, DynamoDB etc.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience with AWS technologies.
- Domain expertise in Payroll.
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