Software Development Engineer, FinTech Ledger Technology

About the role

FinTech’s charter is to enable Finance & Global Business Services teams to support the growth, expansion, and restructuring of Amazon's businesses. We are in a unique position to look across FGBS to provide integrated solutions which satisfy the needs of multiple businesses. As Amazon continues to grow by expanding to new geographies, growing in existing geographies, adding new businesses, and acquiring new subsidiaries, it is vital that our financial technology solutions scale economically.

FinTech Ledger Technology team is responsible for making financially relevant events available for finance use cases by developing strong operational subledger software services. We process millions of transactions every day across multiple business lines for timely and accurate Tax and P&L reporting globally. 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, defines 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 are passionate about helping others and building a positive and supportive team culture.

Responsibilities

• Solve interesting and complex problems at every layer of the stack, making a real difference for our CFOs and finance analysts alike.
• Create scrappy prototypes to test new ideas, integrate with upstream services, and build highly scalable and performant systems processing transactions corresponding to each shipment placed at Amazon.
• Take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery, and support of Ledger systems.
• Balance technical leadership responsibilities with hands-on development work, guiding your team through technical challenges by providing architecture direction and unblocking junior engineers.
• Drive architectural decisions for new features, weighing trade-offs between performance, scalability, and implementation complexity.
• Implement critical functionality and review team members' contributions with detailed, educational feedback to elevate overall code quality.
• Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and coordinate with partner teams on integration strategies for cross-functional initiatives.
• Contribute to strategic technical planning by evaluating emerging technologies, identifying optimization opportunities, and shaping the technical roadmap.
• Participate in hiring interviews to maintain Amazon's high engineering standards and build a strong, diverse team.

About the team

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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually (Bellevue, WA). Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.