Software Development Engineer, FinTech

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Description

Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable Financial systems that support Amazon's current and future growth?

Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation leveraging the scalability and innovation with Amazon's AWS cloud services?

Do you have a passion for ensuring a positive customer experience? This is the job for you.

Amazon's Finance Technology organization (FinTech) is responsible for building and maintaining the critical finance technology applications that enable new business growth, ensure compliance with financial and tax reporting obligations, and provide deep analysis of Amazon's financial data.

This function is of paramount importance to the company, as it underpins Amazon's ability to effectively manage its finances and drive continued expansion.

At the heart of FinTech's mission is the General Ledger team, which builds and operates the technologies to account for and post millions of financial transactions daily to support accurate internal and external financial reporting.

This team processes on average 371MM+ transactions per month, servicing the accounting needs of Finance, Accounting, and Tax teams worldwide.

The work of the General Ledger team is absolutely essential to meeting Amazon's critical close timelines and maintaining the integrity of the company's financial data.

Amazon Financial Technology Team is looking for a results-oriented, driven software development engineer, who can help us create the next generation of distributed, scalable financial systems.

Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time.

We need someone to design and develop services that facilitate global financial transactions worth billions (USD) annually.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a mission-critical initiative with significant organizational visibility and impact.

Key job responsibilities

• Define high level and low level design for software solutions using the latest AWS technology in a large distributed environment.
• Take the lead on defining and implementing engineering best practices and using data to define and improve operational best practices.
• Help drive the architecture and technology choices for FinTech accounting products.
• Design, develop and deploy medium to large software solutions for Amazon accounting needs.
• Raise the bar on code quality, including security, readability, consistency, maintainability.

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
• Bachelor's degree

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600 / year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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