Payments Watch

Techcrunch is predicting a launch announcement by Amazon this week or next of a new web service around payments. If you had been following payments and IT related internet job boards, you may have been able to see this coming. For a couple months I have been wondering what “Project Iris” at Amazon was all about.

For the last couple months I have seen an inordinate amount of job postings from Amazon around payments, including links on our own job board here at Payments Watch Careers. Some sample job descriptions from the postings:

A new team in Payments is looking for creative developers and engineers who take great pride in both the technical and business contribution of their work. You will be working on an innovative new Amazon customer facing service and be given the chance to shape the user experience and the system architecture. Help us invent new features, pioneer new design and architectural choices along the way. You will be developing and deploying a highly scalable and reliable distributed service using Java running on Linux.

And:

Take advantage of an extraordinary opportunity to participate in the beginning of a new business initiative at Amazon. Project Iris is looking for a senior Software Development Engineer to lead and help create a new website for a payment product suite that will have significant impact to customers and Amazon’s business bottom line.

I don’t know if this “Project Iris” is one and the same as the predicted new web service, but it is quite the coincidence. Who knows…a little more on the pending Amazon service here.