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Description

The Accounting Intelligence Services ("AIS") team is looking for an SDE to join an exciting undertaking that leverages AI & ML to solve challenging business problems for Amazon's Finance organization.

Whether you buy something from amazon.com or watch a show on Amazon Prime, any of these business transactions get converted into multiple financial events. Our teams in FinTech use these events to produce insights for Finance and Accounting teams to make business decisions, close financial ledgers, and perform reporting to Amazon shareholders.

Our ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, builds collaborative relationships, moves fast, and is passionate about meaningful work. They will have the technical chops to design and build complex distributed systems that runs at scale. They prefer working on small, focused teams, own their product, and love to pitch in anywhere to get the job done. They lead by example and the team naturally gravitate towards them because of their engineering expertise and decision-making ability. They can communicate effectively with a wide variety of audiences and are comfortable pitching new ideas.

Our team works together to provide work/life balance for all team members. We recognize that the circumstances of our team members vary, and we balance work across the team so that we’re all able to maintain high standards on behalf of our customers, while at the same time allowing for rich and happy personal lives.

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned engineer. In this position, you play a major role in the architecture, design, implementation, and deployment of applications. You will push your design and architecture limits by inventing and simplifying complex problems. You utilize strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven, and can deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. An engineer in this role works with Amazon engineering and business teams across the globe in planning, designing, executing, and implementing new capabilities for the product.

Key job responsibilities

• Work with AWS services such as Elasticsearch, EMR/Spark, Glue, Dynamo DB, Athena, Airflow, S3, EC2, Cloudwatch, and supporting AWS services

• Develop and maintain back end Rest API services written in Java, Python, and Scala

• Develop and maintain front end UIs that use Javascript, React, and Typescript

• Work with product manager and customers to design, code, test, deploy, and maintain new features based on product requirements

• Support peers with design review feedback, code reviews, and issue troubleshooting

• Drive operational excellence improvements and best practices that support 99%+ product availability and error free operation for our customers

• Provide on call support once every seven weeks

A day in the life

You are going to love this job because you will:

• Own the entire software lifecycle, from system design to implementation, release, operation, and continuous, iterative improvement

• Work on every layer of a full stack system, from interaction with core AWS services to API design and implementation, to designing and building user interfaces

• Interface with internal finance customers WW as well as major system owners to drive implementation of new features and new capabilities

• Work with a team of highly collaborative engineers who care about each other

About the team

The Accounting Intelligence Service ("AIS") team leverages AI and ML to enhance finance technology products by improving accuracy and efficiency.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.