Software Dev Engineer II, FinTech Tax

About the job

Amazon is looking for a leaders to build next generation tax systems that powers billions of dollars of accurate payments across multiple lines of business worldwide. Amazon is seeking a rock star Software Development Engineer who will own, architect and shape the future of our FinTech Tax Technology with capabilities to process withholding taxes applicable on invoices and making related payments, provide financial data integration and process global tax requirements across Amazon.

Can you work at the scale of the biggest Internet companies? The solutions that you will build must scale to accommodate rapid processing and integration with large enterprise customers. However, to add to the challenge, the solutions must also support integration with highly scaled systems.

Are you ready to create best in class taxation systems to expand one of the world’s largest e-commerce engines? If so, come be a member of Amazon’s FinTech Tax Technology team. FinTech Tax Tech builds software systems that ensure compliance for Amazon's global businesses and its subsidiaries and makes it easy for millions of Amazon vendors including publishers, app developers, game developers, marketplace sellers, associates and others to comply for hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions. The software platform is among the largest in the world by volume and complexity handling billions of dollars of payments. Much of our work enables Amazon’s new market or business model launches and happens as part of these enterprise programs. We partner integrally with the CFO organization worldwide, including the central finance functions and line of business leadership. We're constantly looking for opportunities to expand capabilities in new geographies and new lines of business.

Is your next project defining a world class Internet service? With us, you will be architecting and delivering applications and services in an environment of highly distributed systems used by Amazon Tax teams. Your innovation will provide new functionality for millions of vendors/payees/sellers globally with a goal of making it easy to comply with tax regulations. You shift your experiences from working at the peripheries of the systems to actually start designing their cores.

Do you want to define the future of Internet commerce? Are you a top-notch software engineer with a creative flare, strong problem-solving skills, the drive to build and ship products often, a solid computer science foundation, and the desire to build Amazon's next generation financial systems architecture to enable 100+ Amazon businesses across Retail, AWS, Physical Stores, Corporates and many more? Come talk with us about joining our customer obsessed team as we expand our capabilities in new geographies and newer lines of business.

Are you up for overcoming challenges in an highly entrepreneurial environment? Enabling Amazon’s explosive growth requires top talent in our FinTech Tax Technology organization. We are seeking Sr. Software Development Engineers who will drive next generation architectural and design choices, invent new features, develop distributed services, keep financial data secure, and build a scalable, service-oriented and performance oriented platform for our customers. A successful candidate will be a role model to set an example for building strong and highly-effective teams you can trust, provide direction and guidance to other engineers in the team while you own the critical path of the architecture, work collaboratively with your customers, and deliver extensible, scalable, resilient, serverless, and secure architecture. As you charter unchartered areas, you embrace ambiguity to innovate with bold bets to drive business growth through technology. You continually solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context aligning your team’s work, goals and priorities with Amazon’s business objectives. You will build flexible systems and processes without over-engineering and choose simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones.

We are seeking someone who has passion for learning, excellent in communication and out-of-box thinker with a can-do attitude and a focus on delivering high quality software. We move at a fast pace and deliver software iteratively using agile best practices and the latest technologies. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect engineers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery. Join our development team to work hard, have fun and make history. You will join a highly technical and entrepreneurial culture defining and building a taxation experience to complement Amazon’s world-class eCommerce domains. Amazon is a premier place to build, deploy and operate internet-scale services.

Basic qualifications - 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 - 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications - 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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