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Job summary
Amazon’s Prime Video is a premium on-demand video entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choice in what to watch from popular Prime Original TV shows (made by Amazon Studios) such as The Grand Tour, Jack Ryan and the recent Golden Globe winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to Prime Original Movies like the Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman. The service also offers TV shows that are exclusively available for Prime members in each country such as American Gods, MR ROBOT and Outlander, and more recently live sport including the US Open tennis from 2018 and Premier League games from 2019. Beyond this content exclusivity, the service further differentiates from other video-on-demand services by offering Prime members the opportunity to subscribe to 60+ channels like Discovery, Starz, Eurosport Player and hayu and hundreds of thousands of additional titles to watch instantly with no extra apps to download or long term contracts. Prime Video is at the forefront of the entertainment industry and growing fast - now available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide – and we work in a dynamic, and exciting environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

The Prime Video Financial Systems team is seeking talented Software Development Engineers to build world-class bespoke financial software to support our expanding Amazon Studios business. Our mission is to provide frictionless on-boarding, management, and renewal of assets and associated contracts for Prime Video and Amazon Studios.

You will be involved in developing and maintaining a system that must efficiently handle large data volumes and highly confidential data. Because we deal with financial data, such as forecasting, budget management, accounting and payments the code we write must conform to high standards of accuracy and consistency. A successful candidate will have strong technical ability, great communication skills and an established background in developing full-stack, n-tier systems.


Key job responsibilities
An engineer in the FinSys Prime Video Financial systems team is a full stack engineer working with the full range of AWS technologies. You'll be expected to design, lead, deliver and support technologies that solve business needs.


A day in the life
A FinSys engineer writes code to support the accounting and payment of licensed and original content. Our work directly impacts the titles Prime customers can see on Amazon.

Team members work on projects from solo projects to multi-team, cross - regional projects. You'll be a; writing and reviewing design docs, writing code, providing code reviews, troubleshooting problems and providing solutions to unique business problems.

About the team
The team works with multiple Amazon Studios teams to get Amazon Studios financial data into our systems. We automate processes, remove risk and get digital content providers paid. In doing this we get great TV series and movies to Prime Customers.

You'll be working with many teams, working on challenging problems across multiple locations and with a great team to support you.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
· Non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
· Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.


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