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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 leveraging the scalability and innovation with Amazon's AWS cloud services? Do you have a passion for ensuring a positive customer experience? This is the job for you.
Amazon's Finance Technology organization (FinTech) is responsible for building and maintaining the critical finance technology applications that enable new business growth, ensure compliance with financial and tax reporting obligations, and provide deep analysis of Amazon's financial data. This function is of paramount importance to the company, as it underpins Amazon's ability to effectively manage its finances and drive continued expansion.
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.
Amazon Financial Technology Team is looking for a results-oriented, driven software development engineer, who can help us create the next generation of distributed, scalable financial systems. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time. We need someone to design and develop services that facilitate global financial transactions worth billions (USD) annually.
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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Bachelor's degree
- 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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#J-18808-LjbffrSoftware development engineer, fintech
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Quality & Reliability Engineer (FinTech/SaaS)
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Join a fast-growing FinTech/SaaS company providing cutting-edge software solutions that help companies manage and automate employee share incentive plans across global markets. With a reputation for excellence and innovation, this team is building a world-class, secure, and scalable platform, and they’re looking for a hands-on Quality & Reliability Engineer (QRE) to take ownership of the development lifecycle and delivery pipeline.
As the QRE, you’ll work at the intersection of development, QA, and operations, driving automation, strengthening deployment practices, and improving the platform’s resilience and performance.
This is a role for someone who takes pride in clean systems, builds with purpose, and wants to drive quality at scale. You’ll have the freedom to optimise processes, work with a supportive, high-calibre team, and make meaningful contributions from day one.
Location: Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, Gauteng.
Salary: Market Related.
Employment Type: Permanent.
Workplace: In-Office (possible remote flexibility).
Minimum Requirements:
- Grade 12 or equivalent.
- Completed degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or IT, with strong academic performance.
- 6 months to 5 years of experience in a software development or related role.
- Portfolio of work, such as personal projects, GitHub links, apps, or other technical contributions that showcase your skills and interest in the field.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools and automation (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI).
- Hands-on experience with PaaS environments such as Heroku Pipelines.
- Solid programming skills in Python and shell scripting.
- In-depth understanding of automated testing, static analysis, and security scanning.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g. Sentry), deployment methodologies, feature flags, and rollback procedures
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth, repeatable deployments.
- Monitor application health, incident alerts, and system uptime metrics.
- Define and enforce SLIs and SLOs (e.g. MTTR, CFR, availability targets).
- Implement testing frameworks, static analysis, and coverage thresholds.
- Improve tooling to support faster, safer delivery and developer productivity.
- Assist with production incident handling and root cause analysis.
- Support secure, compliant deployments aligned to global standards.
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OVERALL PURPOSE
The Senior Analyst: Financial Systems is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining insightful management information, and implementing systems that enable effective decision-making and operational efficiency.
OVERALL PURPOSE
The Senior Analyst: Financial Systems is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining insightful management information, and implementing systems that enable effective decision-making and operational efficiency.
Principal Elements And Accountabilities
- Management and approval of all documentation required to on-board new clients
- Work with the Group Head of Systems and MI to support the development and maintenance of the Group’s MI strategy
- Work closely with the rest of the Systems & MI team to take on board their understanding of the systems that support the Financial Accounting and Control environment and how this will impact the configuration of the systems that support our MI reporting and distribution environment
- Build relationships with Financial Business Partners, Group Head of FP&A, the Head of Commercial Finance, and members of the Financial Control team to gather the reporting requirements and develop and maintain solutions in order to ensure their needs are met timeously
- Work closely with the Business Systems and BI development team in IT in the development and maintenance of our MI reporting tools (primarily the Anaplan, Power BI and other related applications), and to develop efficient solutions for the distribution of MI to stakeholders
- Build knowledge of the business and reporting tools, but also leverage off the
- Manage the development pipeline for new and enhanced MI required by the FP&A team, Finance Business Partners, and all other stakeholdersN & P SO
- Ensure the quality and accuracy of the reporting that is being developed and help to design controls to guard against inaccurate reporting
- Training of end-users of reporting, but also members of staff that may need to train others
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or relevant work experience.
- Specialization in Accounting, Statistics or Information Systems (recommended)
- Implementation of and/or use of Anaplan (or equivalent) at a model builder level
- Experience in budgeting and forecasting (incl. cash flow)
- Production of Management information for use by the CFO and business
- Design of reports using Power BI (or equivalent)
- +3 years’ experience in a similar environment
- Knowledge of the use of SQL / MDX / DAX and/or “Data Wrangling” (R / SAS / Python etc.) would be an advantageous
- Knowledge of MS Dynamix AX / NAV (or other multi-ccy ERP system) would be an Advantage
- A background in financial/ multi-dimensional modelling would be an advantage
- Microsoft Excel / PowerPoint – Advanced
- Ability to deal with management and staff at all levels and excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to train users of systems at all levels
- Great attention to detail, alongside excellent organisational skills
- High degree of professionalism, confidentiality and discretion
- Ability to deal with third parties in a professional and confidential manner
- Schedules and manages workload effectively, thinks ahead, sets plans to achieve goal
- Supports and works towards team goals, shares information
- Seniority level Mid-Senior level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Finance and Sales
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