Senior SDE, Fintech – Scale Global Financial Transactions

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments & RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to build high-performance, globally scalable financial systems for AWS Fintech. You will own end-to-end design, work on sub-second OLAP queries over large datasets, and collaborate with Principal Engineers and product teams.

The role emphasizes mentoring, setting coding standards, and publishing design documents. It offers a competitive compensation package and RSUs, health insurance, and 401(k) matching.

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical vision and architecture for a cohesive finance platform, unifying multiple offerings into a seamless builder experience.
• Design and implement critical-path systems; own the architecture from whiteboard to production, making decisions that balance scalability with speed-to-market.
• Define and raise engineering standards across the team — code quality, operational readiness, testing patterns, and documentation.
• Mentor engineers and raise the hiring bar — grow the people around you and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence.
• Research, prototype, and publish — produce design documents, POCs, and recommendations across AWS Fintech.

Skills

5+ years experience

5+ years programming

5+ years design/architecture

Mentor / tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to build high-performance, globally scalable financial systems for AWS Fintech. You will own end-to-end design, work on sub-second OLAP queries over large datasets, and collaborate with Principal Engineers and product teams.

The role emphasizes mentoring, setting coding standards, and publishing design documents. It offers a competitive compensation package and RSUs, health insurance, and 401(k) matching.