Software Development Engineer, Finance Technology
Amazon · Posted Oct 23
E-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, and digital streaming services
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About the role
The Finance Technology team is responsible for billions of dollars of payments each month to millions of Amazon vendors across the globe, building software that decides how and when a payment happens, carries it out across the world's payment networks, and accounts for it under regulatory, tax, and audit obligations. Engineers on the team work in a high-paced environment leveraging the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AIDLC) and agentic AI across the development lifecycle. This role owns features and components of the payment systems end-to-end, from working backwards from the customer through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
What you will do
- Own features and components of our payment systems end-to-end. The business problem and the technology direction will be understood; how to actually build it will not be, and that part is yours.
- Design the solution and make the tradeoffs. You will code independently, and you will have senior and principal engineers to pull in when a tradeoff is genuinely hard or when a design needs to line up with where the architecture is heading.
- Work directly with product managers and business stakeholders — finance, tax, and accounts payable operations — to understand what they need and why, so that you build the right thing. You will hear the requirement first-hand rather than through a written hand-off, and you will be expected to push back when the ask and the outcome do not line up.
- Ship incrementally. Large payment changes land safely through staged rollout and measurement, not through a single release.
- Reduce operational load. Our best work turns a recurring manual intervention into a code fix or a self-healing mechanism, not another runbook step.
- Leave the system better explained than you found it. What you build should be maintainable and extensible by an engineer who has never seen it, which means clear documentation and design choices that hold up without you in the room.
- Raise the bar around you: code review as a teaching mechanism, mentoring engineers earlier in their careers, and getting new teammates productive on how our software is built, how it operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
- You will take features from working backwards from the customer through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and documentation — and you stay accountable for how they behave in production long after they ship.
- You will use AI agents across the development lifecycle: exploring unfamiliar systems, drafting and reviewing designs, generating and testing code, triaging production issues, and automating the operational work that used to consume a week of on-call.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
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
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
- Experience with cloud computing or web services or related areas
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools in academic or professional settings
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Recognized as one of the world's most valuable brands, it operates the largest internet retail marketplace globally alongside its prominent cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Industry
- E-Commerce
- Company size
- 1576000+ employees
- Founded
- 1994-07-05
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $8M raised
- 2013-03-22Post Ipo Debt$200M
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Executive Chair
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Matt Garman
CEO, Amazon Web Services
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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