Software Development Engineer II, Workplace Productivity
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026.
We seek an SDE II with strong technical acumen, a proven track record in engineering large-scale software systems, and a fervor for tackling complex challenges. This position calls for a candidate who excels under pressure, is adaptable, and can take ownership of the system's success. You will be responsible for driving solutions across the entire development lifecycle, from design to coding, testing, and deployment, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Key job responsibilities
The SDE II on this team will be playing a key role in solving complex problems and building innovative automated solutions for our customers. Candidate needs to have a high sense of ownership, ability to develop end to end solutions and improve customer experience. This role offers exposure to tackling scalability issues in complex process automations leveraging AWS cloud, machine learning algorithms, and distributed systems.
Ideal candidate will drive architectural and design choices, invent new features, develop distributed services, and build a scalable, service-oriented platform.
A day in the life
1. Collaborate with SDMs, TPMs and Senior Software Development Engineers (SDEs) to contribute to the technical and architectural direction of the automation delivery team.
2. Develop scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available services/capabilities supporting our large-scale customers, streamlining the development of process automations.
3. Take a lead role in guiding and supporting junior engineers, promoting best practices in design, coding, testability, and security.
4. Encourage the adoption of new technologies and devise efficient algorithms tailored to our extensive customer base.
About the team
FinTech Workplace is a productivity platform designed to ease the process of uncovering and automating repetitive business processes. It eliminates the need for tedious ‘swivel chair’ work of switching between multiple, incompatible, inconsistent systems repeatedly and transforms it into a single-click experience. With Workplace, operations analysts can discover and accelerate the execution of mundane tasks, re-balance the workload, and focus on more strategic, high value work. In 2024, Workplace saved manual hours across FGBS and non FGBS teams such as Advertisement, Amazon Pay, AWS Sales and PXT. (Read more on Inside Amazon: https://news.a2z.com/contents/36297837)
Basic 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred qualifications
- 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
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