Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Fintech

Amazon.com, Inc.
Seattle, WA, United States
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Adobe InDesign Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Architectural Patterns Software Quality Code Review Computer Programming Online Analytical Processing Software Engineering Data Strategy Data Lineage

Job description

Experteer Overview In this role you design and deliver high-performance, globally scalable financial services within AWS Fintech. You own critical-path systems end-to-end and influence architectural direction across teams. You’ll tackle complex data challenges, from sub-second queries on petabyte-scale datasets to reliable pipelines, driving performance and reliability. You’ll mentor engineers, publish design decisions, and partner with senior leaders to shape future investments. This is a chance to impact global financial infrastructure at scale. Compensation / Benefits * Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for a unified finance platform * Design and implement critical-path systems from whiteboard to production with scalable and fast delivery * Establish and raise engineering standards across the team (code quality, testing, operations, documentation) * Solve complex problems (OLAP performance, data lineage, AI-driven data quality) * Influence data strategy and investment decisions with Principal Engineers and senior leaders * Mentor engineers, raise hiring standards, foster engineering excellence * Research, prototype, and publish design docs, POCs, and recommendations * Identify hotspots and reduce duplication by building platform-level solutions * Engage in design reviews, performance analysis, and operational improvements * Collaborate with Product Managers and partner teams to align on technical direction * Prototype new technologies and architectural patterns to meet evolving challenges * Participate in on-call, incident response, and reliability reviews * Lead design discussions and code reviews, author architectural decisions Tasks * 5+ years of professional software development experience * 5+ years of programming experience in at least one language * 5+ years in leading design/architecture of new and existing systems * Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leadership Key requirements * sign-on payments * restricted stock units (RSUs) * health insurance (medical, dental, vision) * 401(k) matching * paid time off * parental leave

Requirements

reliable decisions with Principal Engineers and senior leaders * Mentor engineers, raise hiring standards, foster engineering excellence * Research, prototype, and publish design docs, POCs, and recommendations * Identify hotspots and reduce duplication by building platform-level solutions * Engage in design reviews, performance analysis, and operational improvements * Collaborate with Product Managers and partner teams to align on technical direction * Prototype new technologies and architectural patterns to meet evolving challenges * Participate in on-call, incident response, and reliability reviews * Lead design discussions and code reviews, author architectural decisions Tasks * 5+ years of professional software development experience * 5+ years of programming experience in at least one language * 5+ years in leading design/architecture of new and existing systems * Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leadership Key requirements * sign-on payments * restricted a

Benefits & conditions

code units (RSUs) * health insurance (medical, dental, vision) * 401(k) matching * paid time off * parental leave

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