Sr. Software Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

At Finance Automation, we are passionate about building systems and services that deliver a seamless and transparent finance experience for Amazon partners. We are responsible for building the systems that automate and orchestrate the services, analytics, and financial transactions that supports Amazon customers and vendors worldwide. Our talented teams span across the globe and depend on our systems to perform their work, and serve customers efficiently, effectively, and securely. We build, operate, and scale systems that are responsible for billions of dollars in transactions, and are central to the success of worldwide finance. If you're interested in building the next generation of financial, distributed, and directed work systems that supports Amazon scale, and want to have a direct and immediate impact with customers, this job is for you.

We are seeking a strong, experienced software engineer who will lead the technical design, development and launch of a new global system that will serve finance needs worldwide. Their leadership will deliver a new system and set of services that will be at the core of making it easier for customers and vendors to do business with Amazon Retail, AWS, Amazon Business, etc. A strong candidate will have experience with designing and building secure, distributed systems that operate globally. They will have experience in building on AWS, and be responsible for the architecture, design and implementation that will provide availability, and latency guarantees. Finally, they will be leaders on the team, and will raise the bar for the organization by mentoring junior engineers, interviewing and setting a high bar for coding standards.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience defining system architectures, technical trade-offs, and design patterns.
· Development experience defining, developing and maintaining web service API's
· Experience in communicating across teams and stakeholders on technical designs and solutions
· Understanding and experience of SDLC, scrum and kanban methodologies
· Experience influencing and mentoring junior software engineers
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
· 4+ years of professional software development experience
· A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar major
· Hands-on experience leading delivery and operations of large scale, distributed, high quality systems
· Experience in an object oriented language such as Java, C#, or C++
· Understanding of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST