Interested to build the next generation Financial Systems that can handle billions of dollars in transactions? Interested to build highly scalable next generation systems that could utilize Amazon Cloud?
Massive data volume + complex business rules in a highly distributed and service oriented architecture = a world class information collection and delivery challenge. Our challenge is to deliver the software systems which accurately capture, process, and report on the huge volume of financial transactions that are generated each day as millions of customers make purchases, as thousands of Vendors and Partners are paid, as inventory moves in and out of warehouses, as commissions are calculated, and as taxes are collected in hundreds of jurisdictions worldwide.
The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills, deep software development experience, and a passion for creating maintainable, highly reliable and scalable user facing applications that are accessed by thousands of external Vendors and internal Customers. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively with internal customers, other dependent development teams in Amazon to develop new applications successfully against high operational standards of system availability and reliability. In the space of workflow management tools, engineers in this team solve problems for the first time and have got opportunity to convert them to generic/re-usable components for use in broader engineering community. We look for engineers who are excellent communicators, self-motivated, flexible, hardworking, and who like to have fun. This candidate also plays active role in reviewing the technical designs from the team and in mentoring of other developers in the team.
You will have the opportunity to play a key role in building new software products and features from the ground up. Your work will allow you to utilize a melting pot of technologies, programming languages, and systems and require you to keep up with the ever-changing technological landscape. Your responsibilities will include all aspects of software development, with the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and the reward of seeing your contributions benefit Amazon worldwide. Finance Automation team is looking for a talented software development engineer who can tackle large complex projects

Key job responsibilities
· Working collaboratively, shape the vision and strategy for solving business problems spread across retail and other cross systems outside of retail
· Develop an architecture, thinking long term about futuristic needs.
· Mentor, grow, and share the journey to deliver with quality.
· Deep dive, develop and deliver systems that are highly maintainable. Technical leader for the team with the ability to deliver against all odds.
· Data driven approach for making right architecture decisions, managing business priorities

A day in the life
As a software development engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in the following:

- Work with the team and stakeholders to help drive business decisions.
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions to drive service optimization, cost, and security.
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
- Write high-quality distributed system software
- Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

Software Development Engineer 2, Finance Automation