Amazon - Seattle, WA
posted 6 months ago
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's Finance Technology organization (FinTech) builds and maintains the finance technology platforms and services that enable new business growth, compliance with financial and tax reporting obligations, and analysis of our financial data. Through our products, we aim to maximize time spent by Finance teams on high value analysis, reduce the growth of operating expenses, and improve the vendor experience. This role will focus on General Ledger space, which builds and maintains technologies to account and post millions of financial events that we process daily for accurate internal and external financial reporting. We process on average 371 million transactions per month and are growing 50% year-over-year. We are building systems that service the accounting needs of accounting, tax, and finance teams worldwide and strive to automate transaction creation and journal posting to General Ledger to meet critical close timelines. We are launching next-gen accounting product FERA - A Foreign Exchange and Re-measurement Automation product, a scalable solution that will be a one-stop solution for all Foreign Exchange needs for the whole of Amazon. It is a multi-year challenge and we are looking for an L6 Software Development Manager to lead a team with the technical chops to revolutionize general ledger well beyond what any tier 1 ERPs can do today. We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team of software engineers. Our ideal candidate is customer-focused and enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time. You will be a passionate builder of talent and teams. As a Manager within Finance Technology, you will help set the vision for a new suite of technology that will enable thousands of global Amazonians to continue to be Earth's Most Customer Centric Company. Software Development Managers at Amazon are owners. You will own your team, your roadmap, and the end-to-end customer experience. You will drive engineering and operational excellence in your team and build delightful products for your customers. You will partner with business stakeholders and will strive to earn their trust. You will work directly with your customers and will constantly innovate on their behalf. You will be a great people manager and enjoy working with diverse mindsets. In this role, you will be responsible for creating finance systems that support Amazon's global footprint. You should insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. The systems we own are responsible for trillions of financial events that would rank among the largest countries in the world by GDP. You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that software is designed to be highly-available, dynamically scalable, and resilient to continuity threats. As a technology leader, you will drive architectural and design choices and invent new features. We have a team culture that encourages innovation where developers and management alike take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture, and project delivery. Successful candidates will be high-bandwidth leaders who can cut through the noise, simplify relentlessly, deliver results, and build great teams around themselves.