Software Development Manager, Amazon Tax Services

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 Tax Services is the place for you.

Tax Services are responsible for the tax calculation platform we provide the core services that calculate the accurate amount of transactional taxes (sales tax and VAT) on Amazon. 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 challenges include staying on top of the complex and ever-changing 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 an experienced customer obsessed Technical leader who can own a set of core products that enable validation of end to end tax workflow and ensure all changes are tested for regression as part of the foundational tax services layer.

The successful candidate is expected to be a technical manager who can deliver through leaders and who understands and sets a high bar for all parts of the software development and deployment life cycle including: design development documentation testing and operations. You must possess strong verbal and written communication skills be self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment. Were looking for people who are smart and can get things done.

- 7 years of engineering experience
- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

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