Sr Software Engineer, Tax Engine
Amazon
Amazon
Join a team building the foundational tax calculation and invoicing systems for one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms. This role focuses on ensuring precise and compliant transactions across global marketplaces, handling sales tax, VAT, and tax invoicing for diverse product types.
Navigate a dynamic regulatory environment where tax laws evolve constantly. The systems you help develop must deliver exceptional accuracy and high throughput in real-time.
This is an opportunity to tackle complex, real-world problems at an immense scale.
Drive business decisions through engineering excellence by partnering with the team. Design, construct, test, deploy, and maintain robust, scalable software solutions with a focus on performance, cost-effectiveness, and security.
Develop high-quality, production-ready distributed systems software. Apply rigorous software engineering best practices to guarantee consistent, high-quality outcomes. Operate within an agile framework that offers clear priorities and immediate impact.
Contribute across the entire software development lifecycle, from initial design and documentation to comprehensive testing and ongoing operations.
We are seeking experienced software engineers passionate about complex challenges and the operation of mission-critical, high-availability systems. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills, and thrives in a fast-paced collaborative environment with talented colleagues.
Essential technical foundations include proficiency in object-oriented programming languages, familiarity with Linux development environments, experience with relational database systems, and a background in building or managing large-scale distributed systems.
Basic qualifications require a minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience (non-internship), 5 years of programming in at least one software language, and 5 years in leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems. Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead is also expected, along with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
Preferred qualifications include over 5 years of experience across the full software development lifecycle, encompassing coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Amazon
E-Commerce