Senior Software Development Engineer, Selling Partner Financial Technology

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to join their Selling Partner Financial Technology team. The role focuses on building scalable financial solutions for millions of users, requiring strong software development skills, leadership experience, and an innovative mindset. This is a chance to impact critical financial systems significantly and work in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software development experience required.
• Experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to design and build innovative technologies.
• Create solutions for distributed systems.
• Participate in the full development cycle.

Skills

Software Development

Programming

System Design

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer, Selling Partner Financial Technology

Are you passionate about working with Amazon-scale systems, solving critical engineering problems, and delivering mission critical solutions? Does the idea of building end-to-end financial solutions that will delight millions of Selling Partners excite you? If yes, then we want to talk with you. Selling Partner Financial Technology (SPFT) is looking for a dynamic senior engineer to join our financial experiences team to deliver world-class financial experiences that delights our Selling Partners.

Selling Partners depend on us to provide accurate and transparent financial information to help them manage and grow their business. We are looking for a senior engineer with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for delivering creative solutions for complex problems on an unprecedented scale. You will work across multiple teams, and guide strategic architectural changes that will have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers. You will lead the team in building scalable solutions that will achieve our vision of 100% financial accuracy and transparency.

Successful candidates must also be innovative, flexible, self-directed, and able to design scalable solutions for large scale distributed systems. They must be able to write high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code, while leading and shepherding team coding standards. The ability to function at a very high level in a fast-paced environment, acting as a technical lead for a team of very talented engineers is essential. If you enjoy working in a dynamic environment to deliver world class mission critical systems, this may be the career opportunity for you!

Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
• Participate in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
• Produce comprehensive, usable software documentation.
• Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
• Mentor junior development engineers.

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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