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# Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Fintech

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Software Quality, Code Review, Computer Programming, Online Analytical Processing, Software Engineering, Data Strategy, Data Lineage
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/senior-software-development-engineer-aws-fintech-seattle-wa-usa-58834405

## About the Role

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

## 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


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