Software Development Engineer, AWS FIN TECH

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 161,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Software Development Engineer for their AWS Fin Tech team in Vancouver. The role involves designing and developing scalable financial systems, collaborating closely with stakeholders, and ensuring high performance. Candidates should have significant software development experience and a passion for innovation. This position offers a competitive salary range of $114,800 to $191,800 annually, with additional benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience of new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for technical design and delivery of software components.
• Work closely with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements.
• Translate proposals into technical designs and deliver features in production.
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Drive engineering best practices for continuous improvements.

Skills

Software development

Design patterns

Problem-solving

Big data

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, AWS FIN TECH

Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable AWS Financial systems that drive 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.

AWS Financial Technology Team is looking for a results-oriented, innovative 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, relishes working with big data, and enjoys problem solving within 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for technical design and delivery of software components.
• Works closely with our customers and stakeholders to understand their requirements, analyzes various technical options and proposes solutions with proof of concept.
• Translates the proposals into technical design, coordinates development effort with other SDEs, tests and delivers features in production.
• Performs code reviewers for peer engineers and provides constructive feedback.
• Ensures that the solutions proposed are logical, testable, maintainable, and efficient.
• Drives engineering best practices for continuous process improvements in all phases of the software development lifecycle.

A day in the life

A Software Development Engineer (SDE) at Amazon works on real world problems on a global scale, owns their systems end to end and influences the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions of customers around the world. You can expect to design flexible scalable, and complex solutions in large-scale computing by utilizing your skills in data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming. Coming to Amazon gives you the opportunity to work on a small development team in one of our many rapidly growing organizations.

You will learn all about how to design, implement and test highly scalable solutions using the AWS cloud platform and its many products, working with best in class professionals.

About the team

At AWS Fintech we automate the transformation of financial data into information and information into insights that AWS Finance teams can use to drive action. The automation we provide allows AWS Finance to scale through technology rather than people. For example, when you ask questions, such as how AWS decides pricing for AWS services, how does AWS knows it’s revenue, or how does AWS Services know if they are profitable, it’s all through applications that our team creates. We do full stack applications to capture data, integrating with multiple financial systems, and data warehouses and using machine learning to get insights from the 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

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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. 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.

The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.