The Amazon Financials Foundation Services (AFFS), a division within Amazon’s eCommerce Services Organization (eCS) is an innovator in business systems integration and defining the future of financial accounting at Amazon scale. Our systems are advancing one of the world's most scalable, reliable, and secure e-commerce ecosystems and are responsible for processing hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions, in multiple currencies and countries. We are at the center of Amazon’s key initiatives and fueling the growth of Amazon’s businesses worldwide by constantly raising the bar on the speed at which business teams can integrate with our systems.

We're looking for customer-obsessed server side software engineers who are interested in working on large scale, highly distributed systems. Our team builds one of the world’s most scalable, reliable, and secure e-commerce platforms that processes tens of millions of financial transactions (in multiple currencies and countries). Have you ever wanted to work on machine learning problems that will make a lasting impact? Join us, and solve key problems that impact the experience of millions of Amazon customers.

As an engineer in AFFS, you will be part of a team of high performing engineers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize services that are the foundation for Amazon's financial reporting. We reliably handle data in high volume and velocity. You will interface with teams and systems inside and outside of our org including Business Systems, Financial Systems, and Accounting. Our mission is to provide a world-class customer experience through a data-driven approach and scalable and robust software.

A successful candidate will be a self-starter and fast learner with an established background in developing high volume and highly available services, strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
*Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design.
* Navigate ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, move fast with short-term and long-term trade offs.
* Develop, test, optimize and scale features on highly available services.
* Dive into architecture, code, metrics to drive operational excellence.
* Keep pace with rapidly changing technology, bringing new technologies on board with the team.