Software Development Engineer II, Close Systems - Project Accounting

DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about simplifying complex problems? Do you like finding patterns and inventing new ways to push the boundaries?

Interested in building high-performance, globally scalable systems that support Amazon's current and future growth? Interested in building and operating the next generation of systems to automate and optimize critical financial processes? If so, Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is for you!

Amazon's FinTech is an organization where people, technology, passion and innovation come together to build products and solve problems for Amazon. Technology solutions and services that we own and build impacts Amazon in all verticals including merger and expansions, operational excellence, compliance with rules and regulations.

Amazon Finance Technology team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to build a brand-new Close System Platform and adjacent products. We will leverage state of the art technologies automate accounting, and finance processes that require data consolidation, computation, consolidation, reconciliation and reporting.

We are building products to replace our dependency on third party software and can scale with Amazon. This is a green field initiative to develop products that can process trillions of transactions per month in near real time. Successful candidates will be high-bandwidth leaders who can cut through the noise, simplify relentlessly, deliver results, and build great teams around themselves.

We are looking for an innovative Software Development Engineer II who wants to have outsize impact. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will help to define and build innovative large-scale financial systems with a direct impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of flagship products that customers love and use every day.

You'll be working with talented engineers using latest full-stack technology. The ideal candidate will have industry-leading programming skills, a deep understanding computer science fundamentals, and be conversant up the software stack.

We care about your career growth too. Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger problems, or get to the next level, we will help you get there. Our business is growing fast, and our people will grow with it!

Key job responsibilities

Experience with large scale distributed systems and service oriented architecture.

Experience building or supporting Financial Systems.

Experience working with big data platforms.

Experience with Amazon Web Services

Experience with Agile software development methodologies.

Experience in Technologies we use: Python, Lambda, DynamoDB, Athena, EMR, EDX, Angular/React and others on the AWS stack.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Dallas, TX, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 3+ 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

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