Would you like to work on one of the worlds largest transactional distributed systems How about working with customers and peers from the entire range of Amazons business on cool new features Whether youre passionate about building highly scalable and reliable systems working with advanced technology or a software developer who likes to solve business problems Tax Services is the place for you.
The YVR Tax charter is organized into five key areas: Product Classification Intelligence Platform Content Management Calculation Storage and Applied Science. We thrive on providing the correct tax amounts to the customer at order time and make sure audit records are stored safely to meet tax law requirements around the globe. Our team stays on top of the complex and everchanging global tax rates and laws as well as computing calculations correctly and quickly thousands of times a second and each one needs to be right.
We are looking for software engineers who thrive on complex problems to operate complex and missioncritical systems under loads. Our systems manage hundreds of millions of records and respond to millions of service requests per minute.
The successful candidate is expected to contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle including design development documentation testing and operations. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills be selfdriven and deliver high quality results in a fastpaced environment. They need to really enjoy working closely with their peers in a group of very smart and talented engineers.
Were looking for people who are smart and can get things done though the following skill sets provide a good foundation for a quick ramp up to being productive in our Java Linux and AWSbased environment. Were looking for a range of experience from brilliant and motivated new college graduates to technical leaders with the scars and battletested wisdom.
5 years of noninternship 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
5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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The base salary for this position ranges from $150700/year up to $251700/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.