Amazon jobs - Software Development Engineer

Job Description :Time and Attendance team's charter is to build a world-class product which meets attendance and pay computation needs for over 2 million hurly associates across Amazon businesses. People Technology is the central hub for all Amazon.

Job Description

Time and Attendance team's charter is to build a world-class product which meets attendance and pay computation needs for over 2 million hurly associates across Amazon businesses. People Technology is the central hub for all Amazon.com people data. Our technology provides the foundation and orchestration for a multitude of key human resource processes, from on-boarding of tens of thousands of temporary employees during peak holiday season to integrating critical employee data to internal and external systems. We implement and build highly secure, global software that allows Amazon.com to effectively manage the workforce, resulting in a better employee experience and a better bottom line.

Amazon Time and Attendance (TAA) is looking for talented Software Development Engineers (SDE) to join their team at Hyderabad, India. Amazon continuously pushes the limit to deliver packages and goods to customers as fast as possible. Gaining efficiencies in tracking productivity, time, and attendance is paramount to achieving this goal. You will get a chance to invent new technologies and build custom solutions to help Amazon track time, attendance, and productivity of employees and impact the employee experience.
How hard can it be to pay people for the right number of hours worked? Would you be excited to dive into surprisingly complicated space that is tangible to all Amazonians, with the real-time analytics, surge-traffic handling, fault detection, and data processing by developing new solutions on NAWS/Server less platforms? Then you are the person, People Technology is looking for.

You have top notch computer science skills, are obsessed with customer delight, and have a demonstrated track record of passion for leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build incredible products. You understand back-end services and know how to conceptualize, design, implement, and fix them. You go through life thinking about how to use technology to solve problems. You live and breathe data analysis, and can succinctly and accurately report your findings. You understand the untapped power of utilizing Internet technologies to support Amazons goal to be the most customer-centric company in the world. Most importantly, you have a passion for learning and are driven to be the best at what you do.

Basic Qualifications

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Experience developing on a Linux platform
Attention to detail coupled with ability to think abstractly
Ability to do scripting (HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, and CSS, Perl, Python etc.)
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Strong debugging, monitoring, diagnosing skills for IT systems
Keen eye for performance, security and scalability aspects
Coaching and guiding cross-functional engineers
Strong exposure to automated testing and test coverage aspects

Preferred Qualifications

Masters Degree in Computer Science
Experience with languages/technologies such as Ruby on Rails UI, R , ReactJS, Jasmine and Python
Exposure to Oracle, RedShift, Aurora, ANSI SQL and Dynamo is desirable.
Excellent communication skills, able to actively participate in team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
Ability and drive to continually improve your knowledge, skillset and understanding of Amazons business, systems, development environment
Passion towards problem-solving and strong decision-making ability
Ability to think critically and arrive at elegant solutions to challenging problems
Proven track-record delivering high-quality, on-time, elegant solutions
Ability to deal with ambiguous situations and think abstractly
Familiar with AWS, Scalability of apps to serve 1+ million users
Ability to discuss architecture for supporting mobile platforms
Exposure to mobile application development would be valuable.