Software Development Engineer II, FinTech
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 underpins Amazon's ability to effectively manage its finances and drive continued expansion.
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 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.
Design Foundational Greenfield Services: You will collaborate with your team to architect and implement the core services that will form the backbone of this new accounting software. Your technical expertise and innovative thinking will be instrumental in ensuring the foundational services are designed with scalability, reliability, and performance in mind for Amazon.
Adopting Latest Technology: You will have the chance to work with the latest technologies, frameworks, and tools to build these foundational services. This includes leveraging advancements in areas such as cloud computing, distributed systems, data processing, and real-time analytics.
Solving High-Scale Processing Challenges: This project will involve handling millions of transactions per day, presenting you with the unique challenge of designing and implementing robust, high-performance solutions that can handle this scale of volume efficiently. You will be challenged to tackle complex problems related to data processing, queuing, and real-time analytics.
Cross-Functional and Senior Engineer Collaboration: You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data engineers, and accountants. You will also work directly with multiple Principal Engineers and present your work to Senior Principal Engineers. This experience will give you the opportunities and visibility to help build the required leadership skills to enhance your career.
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.
About the team
At the heart of FinTech's mission is the Financial Close Systems team, which builds and operates the technologies to support accurate internal and external financial reporting. The Close systems team provides capabilities to teams across FGBS orgs including Accounting, Finance, and Tax to effectively report the consolidated financials to external authorities. The work of the Close systems team is essential to meeting Amazon's critical month end close timelines and maintaining the integrity of the company's financial data.
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
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