Software Development Engineer, FinTech Ledger Technology

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

1d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

FinTech’s charter is to enable Finance & Global Business Services teams to support the growth, expansion, and restructuring of Amazon's businesses. We are in a unique position to look across FGBS to provide integrated solutions which satisfy the needs of multiple businesses. As Amazon continues to grow by expanding to new geographies, growing in existing geographies, adding new businesses, and acquiring new subsidiaries, it is vital that our financial technology solutions scale economically. FinTech Ledger Technology team is responsible for making financially relevant events available for finance use cases by developing strong operational subledger software services. We process millions of transactions every day across multiple business lines for timely and accurate Tax and P&L reporting globally. We are looking for a driven, results-oriented innovative software development engineer, who can help us create the next generation of distributed, scalable ledger systems. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, relishes working with big data, define micro-services to ingest, and enable fast and easy access to transactions and enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts of various Amazon business models that are typically being innovated as we grow. They enjoy solving ambiguous problems, and is passionate about helping others and building a positive and supportive team culture.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• 3+ 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

Responsibilities

• As a member of our engineering team, you will be solving interesting and complex problems at every layer of the stack, making a real difference for our CFOs and finance analysts alike.
• Solving these problems range from creating scrappy prototypes to test out new ideas, integrating with upstream services and to creating highly scalable and performant systems processing transactions corresponding to each shipment placed at Amazon.
• As a Software Development Engineer on the team you will take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery and support of Ledger systems.
• Balance technical leadership responsibilities with hands-on development work.
• Guide your team through technical challenges by providing architecture direction and helping unblock junior engineers facing complex problems.
• Drive architectural decisions for new features, weighing trade-offs between performance, scalability, and implementation complexity.
• Design high-level system components, dive deep into code, implementing critical functionality and reviewing team members' contributions with detailed, educational feedback that elevates overall code quality.
• Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and coordinate with partner teams on integration strategies for cross-functional initiatives.
• Contribute to strategic technical planning by evaluating emerging technologies, identifying optimization opportunities within existing systems, and shaping the technical roadmap.
• Participate in hiring interviews, helping maintain Amazon's high engineering standards while building a strong, diverse team.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level