Senior Software Development Engineer, Finance Technology

Overview

Senior Software Development Engineer, Finance Technology. 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 Financial Technology Team is looking for a results-oriented, driven software development engineer to work in our Software Development Center in Sao Paulo, 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 the challenge of overly 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.

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 and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges 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 AWS cloud platform and its many products, in challenging agile projects, working with best-in-class professionals.

At Amazon Brazil we value Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in all our job positions; we act intentionally so that our internal environment reflects the plurality of the businesses we serve. In Brazil, we have a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion squad formed by representatives from different roles and areas to support DE&I initiatives. Our leadership is committed to sharing and acting on our leadership principles with the goal of ‘Strive to Be Earth’s Best Employer’. Our affinity groups include BEN - Black Employee Network, Women@Amazon, Glamazon (LGBTQIA+), and People With Disabilities. It’s always Day 1 at Amazon.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet timelines with optimal solutions
• A high degree of pragmatism in building the simplest thing that does the job; we want to use technology to solve real-world problems expediently, not indulge in over-designed, unnecessarily intricate software architecture
• A good understanding of Software Development Life-cycle models and a track record of shipping software efficiently. You recognize the difference between building software and shipping software
• A strong track record of large and cross-functional project deliveries
• Sharp analytical abilities and proven system design skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline OR Master’s degree in computer science, Math or Physics or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet timelines with optimal solutions
• A high degree of pragmatism in building the simplest thing that does the job; we want to use technology to solve real-world problems expediently, not indulge in over-designed, unnecessarily intricate software architecture
• A good understanding of Software Development Life-cycle models and a track record of shipping software efficiently. You recognize the difference between building software and shipping software
• A strong track record of large and cross-functional project deliveries
• Sharp analytical abilities and proven system design skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline OR Master’s degree in computer science, Math or Physics or related field

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Posted: September 24, 2025 (Updated date shown for context)

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