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 or a software developer who likes to solve business problems Amazon Tax Platform Services is the place for you.
We are responsible for the tax platform providing the core services that calculate taxes. We are looking for software engineers who thrive on complex problems and likes the challenge of operating complex and mission critical systems.
The successful candidate is expected to contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle including design development documentation testing and operations. You need to possess good verbal and written communication skills be self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment.
As a software development engineer on this team you will play a pivotal role in the following:
- Work with the team to help drive business decisions
- Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations cost and security.
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
- Write high quality distributed system software
- Work in an agile startup-like development environment where you are always working on the most important stuff.
- 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
- 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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