This is a unique opportunity to be part of a mission-critical initiative with significant organizational visibility and impact.
Design Foundational Greenfield Services: You will collaborate with your team to architect and implement the core services that will form the backbone of this new accounting software. Your technical expertise and innovative thinking will be instrumental in ensuring the foundational services are designed with scalability, reliability, and performance in mind for Amazon.
Adopting Latest Technology: You will have the chance to work with the latest technologies, frameworks, and tools to build these foundational services. This includes leveraging advancements in areas such as cloud computing, distributed systems, data processing, and real-time analytics.
Solving High-Scale Processing Challenges: This project will involve handling millions of transactions per day, presenting you with the unique challenge of designing and implementing robust, high-performance solutions that can handle this scale of volume efficiently. You will be challenged to tackle complex problems related to data processing, queuing, and real-time analytics.
Cross-Functional and Senior Engineer Collaboration: You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data engineers, and accountants. You will also be working directly with multiple Principal Engineers and presenting your work to Senior Principal Engineers. This experience will give you the opportunities and visibility to help build the required leadership skills to enhance your career.
Key job responsibilities
Define high level and low level design for software solutions using the latest AWS technology in a large distributed environment.
Take the lead on defining and implementing engineering best practices and using data to define and improve operational best practices.
Help drive the architecture and technology choices for FinTech accounting products.
Design, develop and deploy medium to large software solutions for Amazon accounting needs.
Raise the bar on code quality, including security, readability, consistency, maintainability.
About the team
At the heart of FinTech's mission is the General Ledger team, which builds and operates the technologies to account for and post millions of financial transactions daily to support accurate internal and external financial reporting. This team processes on average 371MM+ transactions per month, servicing the accounting needs of Finance, Accounting, and Tax teams worldwide. The work of the General ledger team is absolutely essential to meeting Amazon's critical close timelines and maintaining the integrity of the company's financial data.
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
3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
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
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