System Development Engineer II, FinTech
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong value due to the reputation of Amazon, potential for career advancement, and opportunities for innovation in FinTech.
- Competitive work environment in FinTech
- Chance to influence major financial systems
- Role offers significant growth potential
- Demands strong technical and collaborative skills
Pros
- Involvement in high-performance financial systems for a major global company
- Opportunities for mentorship and cross-department collaboration
- Innovative work environment focused on automation and scalability
Cons
- High expectations for performance and deliverables
- Potential for demanding work hours
- Requires a broad skill set that could intimidate some candidates
Who it's for
Mid-career to Senior • On-site/Hybrid possible background check may be needed
Good fit
- System engineers with experience in automation
- Candidates wanting to work in dynamic FinTech projects
- Those eager to innovate within large tech companies
Not recommended for
- New graduates without hands-on experience
- Individuals not willing to adapt to fast-paced changes
- Candidates seeking only traditional developer roles
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Description
Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable Financial systems that support Amazon's current and future growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Does the prospect of working with top engineering talent get you charged up? If so, Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is for you!
Amazon Finance Technology is looking for a highly motivated System Development Engineer to help build Amazon's business critical financial systems and build system solutions to operate at scale. You will work on critical finance business functions for our customers around the world while meeting system availability goals and ensuring system performance with growing business needs. You will discover innovative ways to automate and scale our infrastructure as we expand globally. You will work together with multiple teams and departments, with plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.
The ideal candidate has a passion for understanding computing systems and for applying that understanding with an obsession for delighting customers. In this role, you will apply your skills of system design, networking, coding/scripting languages, as well as technical communication and project organization to make your impact on improving our business processes. The candidate is expected to contribute work critical initiatives, build products, lead engineers to troubleshoot, debug, evaluate and resolve computer-identified alarms, make feature enhancements, systems management, perform software deployments and migrations, host management and automate the operational tasks.
They would also be responsible to develop tools and end to end automation to achieve human free operations.
As an Engineer in the team, you will take part in in the architecture, design, implementation and deployment of large-scale and complex software systems. You will get to leverage your experience and expertise to deliver innovative solutions to challenging problems. You will communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customer. You enjoy collaborating with others to increase the effectiveness of the overall team. Your code, design, and implementation decisions should set a great example to other engineers. You will also have the opportunity to impact the technical decisions in the broader organization as well as mentor other engineers in the team.
