Software Development Engineer, FinTech

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is at the forefront of financial technology innovation. As a Software Development Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in creating scalable financial systems that support global transactions. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge AWS technologies and collaborate with talented professionals in a dynamic environment. Your contributions will directly impact the customer experience and operational efficiency of financial applications. If you thrive in fast-paced settings and are passionate about software development, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience required.
• Experience with design patterns and system architecture is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a best-in-class customer experience by improving platforms and services.
• Design and develop scalable software solutions using AWS technologies.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Object-Oriented Programming

Data Structures

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Source Control Management

Job description

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, 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 (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.

In this role you will:

1. Deliver a Best-in-Class customer experience by continuously improving platform, code and services that enable receivables globally.
2. Build services/integration for Financial Applications.
3. Design and Develop Best integration patterns for our system. Leverage and integrate with different tools, technologies and products within Amazon to reduce operational cost and enhance customer experience.
4. Partner directly with other Software Development Engineers (SDEs), Technical Program Managers, Functional Analysts and Customers to understand features and continuously identify opportunities to build and deploy software solutions.

Key job responsibilities

1. Define high level and low level design for software solutions using the latest AWS technology in a large distributed environment.
2. Take the lead on defining and implementing engineering best practices and using data to define and improve operational best practices.
3. Help drive the architecture and technology choices for FinTech accounting products.
4. Design, develop and deploy medium to large software solutions for Amazon accounting needs.
5. Raise the bar on code quality, including security, readability, consistency, maintainability.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
3. 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience.
4. Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

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Posted: January 28, 2025 (Updated about 2 hours ago)

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