Build new payment microservices for Amazon's emerging-market storefronts

This role is on Amazon's DEP (Digital and Emerging Markets Payments) engineering team, delighting customers across emerging countries (MX, BR, AU, SG, IL) with new payment experiences on Desktop and Mobile, built on native AWS services with an on-call ownership model. It's a ground-floor team building new microservices, so expect Amazon's standard bar-raiser loop with strong emphasis on availability and operational ownership.

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Likely format

Amazon's standard loop: phone screen + onsite/virtual rounds combining technical (coding + system design) interviews with Leadership Principles behavioral questions.

What this interview tests

Building new microservices from scratch on native AWS services
Operational ownership: monitoring, alarms, on-call for payment systems
System design and architecture for emerging-market payment experiences
Desktop and mobile customer experience for payments
Amazon Leadership Principles applied to ownership and reliability

Common question themes

Design a new payment microservice on AWS with monitoring and alerting built in

Tell me about an on-call incident you owned and resolved

Architecture/design pattern tradeoffs for a new service you built

How do you scale a new product to meet growing business needs

Leadership Principles behavioral: ownership, high standards, customer obsession

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