Software Development Engineer, Digital Payments and Emerging Markets

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Digital Payments and Emerging Markets in Mexico City, Mexico. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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The Amazon Digital and Emerging Payments Team’s vision is to delight our customers with the best payment experience in the world! To achieve this vision, we are in search of a talented Software Developer who is customer obsessed and is focused on delivering first class quality products to our customers.

Our team takes a world view of payments for all of Amazon and builds highly customized and seamless payment experiences for our global customers. This focuses on geography and customer requires working on different technologies such as Android, Amazon Fire, and back-end platform systems in order to meet the needs of our customers. Our back-end systems are always available and guarantee that our customers' orders are never lost and always processed even when downstream services are down.

We are looking for a software development Engineer to play a key role in the Digital Payments & Emerging Markets (DEP) team, primarily building Amazon's Mexico Payments Products. This role offers exciting challenges and the opportunity to influence and drive a growing payments area.

This is a great opportunity to get on the ground floor of a team being setup to step change the customer experience in payments. Don't let it pass by!

Key job responsibilities
As a Developer, you will:

Help drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class experience for our developers

Utilize various metrics sources to deliver rapid iterations of software features

Solve difficult problems with elegant and practical code

Raise the bar on quality, consistency, maintainability, efficiency, security and all the other things that make great software

Be responsible for designing, developing and deploying medium to large sized projects

Help define engineering best practices

Be a champion for the user: Insist on the highest standards, create functional and engaging features, and ensure their needs always come first.

About the team
Inclusive team culture
At Amazon we embrace our differences and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust

Mentorship& Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work Life Balance
We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Digital Payments and Emerging Markets at Amazon rates 35 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Software Development Engineer, Digital Payments and Emerging Markets is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in MX, DIF, Mexico City.
The job was posted on June 9, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
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