Senior Software Development Engineer, FinTech Tax

Join Amazons FinTech Tax Technology team to architect and build next-generation tax systems that power billions of dollars in accurate payments across Amazons global businesses. Youll design scalable distributed solutions that enable millions of vendors sellers and partners worldwide to comply with complex tax regulations while supporting Amazons expansion into new markets and business models.

Key job responsibilities

Design and architect distributed tax processing services and microservices that scale to handle billions of transactions while maintaining security performance and reliability across multiple Amazon business lines

Develop and deliver extensible scalable and resilient solutions that integrate withholding tax processing financial data and global tax requirements with enterprise systems

Collaborate with finance tax and business teams to understand regulatory requirements and translate them into technical solutions that enable new market and business model launches

Provide technical leadership by mentoring other engineers conducting code reviews and establishing best practices for building service-oriented serverless and secure architecture

Solve complex problems at their root by understanding broader business context identifying opportunities for simplification and making thoughtful trade-offs between innovation and operational excellence


A day in the life
As a Senior Software Development Engineer on our FinTech Tax Technology team youll focus on designing and delivering distributed tax processing systems that handle billions of dollars in transactions across multiple Amazon business lines. Your day might include collaborating with finance and tax teams to understand new regulatory requirements architecting microservices that integrate withholding tax processing with enterprise systems or mentoring other engineers on scalable design patterns. Youll work within a highly distributed environment balancing the need for rapid innovation with the precision required in financial systems. Youll also participate in code reviews contribute to technical design discussions and help shape the technical direction of our platform as we expand into new geographies and business models.

About the team
We are a customer-focused team building software systems that ensure compliance for Amazons global businesses and subsidiaries. Our platform is among the largest in the world by volume and complexity and we partner integrally with finance leadership central finance functions and line of business teams worldwide. Were committed to making tax compliance straightforward for millions of vendors publishers app developers marketplace sellers and associates. Our team culture encourages innovation and shared ownership of product vision technical architecture and delivery. Were constantly exploring opportunities to expand our capabilities into new geographies and business models and were looking for engineers who are excited about solving complex problems at scale and contributing to Amazons continued growth.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience

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