Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Finance Technology

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for its Finance Technology team to create scalable financial systems. The role involves tackling complex technical challenges and leading design efforts while delivering impactful solutions for global financial operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture of systems.
• Mentorship and tech lead experience required.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop services for global financial transactions.
• Work on big data problems using AWS services.
• Build highly scalable and reliable distributed services.

Skills

Software Development

Programming Languages

Design Patterns

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Finance Technology

Are you interested in building high-performance, scalable financial systems that support Amazon's current and future growth? Are you looking for ways to invent newer and simpler ways of building solutions? If so, we are looking for you to fill a challenging position in Amazon Finance Technology team.

Amazon Finance Technology Team is looking for a Senior 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 of dollars annually.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and build highly scalable solutions to solve unique problems for worldwide accounting/finance teams. You will work on big data problems making use of AWS services, design enterprise scaled systems, develop and deploy highly scalable and reliable distributed services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day. Along the way, we guarantee that you will learn a ton, have fun and make a huge impact.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ 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

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