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# Software Development Engineer, FinTech Ledger...

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $143,700.0 - $194,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Accounting Systems, Big Data, Software Quality, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g53te4

## About the Role

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., 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

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

## Description

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.

A day in the life

As an SDE at Amazon FinTech, you will balance technical leadership responsibilities with hands-on development work. You will guide your team through technical challenges by providing architecture direction and helping unblock junior engineers facing complex problems. You will drive architectural decisions for new features, weighing trade-offs between performance, scalability, and implementation complexity. While designing high-level system components, you will dive deep into code, implementing critical functionality and reviewing team members' contributions with detailed, educational feedback that elevates overall code quality. Your technical leadership will extend beyond your immediate team as you collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and coordinate with partner teams on integration strategies for cross-functional initiatives. You will contribute to strategic technical planning by evaluating emerging technologies, identifying optimization opportunities
within existing systems, and shaping the technical roadmap. You will participate in hiring interviews, helping maintain Amazon's high engineering standards while building a strong, diverse team. Along the way, you'll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact at scale.

About the team

We are a tight-knit group that shares our experiences and help each other succeed. We believe in team work. We love hard problems and like to move fast in a growing and changing environment. We use data to guide our decisions and we always push the technology and process boundaries of what is feasible on behalf of our customers.


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