Amazon's Financial Technology team is seeking passionate, results-driven, and inventive software developers who thrive in working on massively scalable and distributed systems. The ideal candidate excels in a fast-paced environment, understands how to handle large data sets and transactions, and will contribute to delivering a new generation of software leveraging Amazon Web Services. With a passion for technology and a desire to tackle real-world business challenges, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in our platform, which serves Amazon's finance, tax, and accounting functions globally. As a member of this team, your mission will be to design, develop, document, and support massively scalable, distributed real-time systems. Utilizing C++, Python, Java, object-oriented design patterns, distributed databases, and other innovative storage techniques, you will build and deliver software systems that support complex and rapidly evolving business requirements. We seek individuals with a range of experience, from brilliant and motivated new college graduates to seasoned technical leaders with battle-tested wisdom and scars. If you can think big, aspire to join a fast-moving team breaking new ground at Amazon, and meet the qualifications, we would be delighted to engage with you. Key job responsibilities This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned software engineer to take on a pivotal role in the architecture, design, implementation, and deployment of large-scale, critical, and complex financial applications. You will push your design and architecture skills to the limit by owning all aspects of end-to-end solutions through full-stack software development. Leveraging agile methodologies, you will iteratively build and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment. With strong verbal and written communication abilities, self-motivation, and a collaborative mindset, you will work across Amazon engineering teams and business teams globally to plan, design, execute, and implement this new platform across multiple geographies. Throughout the project lifecycle, you will review requirements, design services that lay the foundation for the new technology platform, build new interfaces, integrate with existing architectures, develop and test code, and deliver seamless implementations for Global Tax customers. In a hands-on role, you will manage day-to-day activities, participate in designs, design reviews, and code reviews with the engineering team. Utilizing AWS technologies such as EC2, RDS/DynamoDB/RedShift, SWF, S3, and QuickSight, you will build backend services and customer-facing APIs. You will design and code technical solutions using tools such as Angular JS, React, Node.js, JQuery, and SQL Server to deliver value to tax customers. Additionally, you will contribute to a suite of tools hosted on the AWS infrastructure, working with a variety of tools across the spectrum of the software development lifecycle. A day in the life In this role, you will collaborate closely with Tax teams to gain a deep understanding of their business challenges, adapt swiftly to evolving needs, and align your efforts with customer priorities. You should possess the ability to act with agility, rapidly develop solutions, create proofs of concept (POCs), and provide customers with the right recommendations. A key aspect of your responsibilities will involve working closely with peer engineers, actively contributing to the design of solutions, conducting thorough deep dives, and participating in quality code reviews. Additionally, you will share the responsibility of owning and resolving operational tickets alongside your peers, ensuring efficient and effective issue resolution. This position demands a proactive mindset, strong problem-solving skills, and a commitment to delivering high-quality solutions tailored to the specific requirements of Tax teams and their customers. About the team The FinTech RoW Tax Compliance team oversees the Tax Data Warehouse platform, a large-scale data platform and reporting solution designed for indirect tax compliance across Amazon and other organizations. This platform enables businesses to adhere to mandatory tax regulations, drive data accuracy, and ensure audit readiness, providing consistent and reliable data to tax teams in the MX regions. As Amazon expands its operations in MX and other countries, the RoW Compliance team plays a crucial role in delivering mandatory tax reporting obligations, facilitating these launches. Furthermore, their charter encompasses building solutions to meet evolving tax legislation changes, audit requests, and technology requirements globally, such as Recon. The team is also investing in building the next generation of strategic platforms such as Unified tax ledger(UTL). ### Basic qualifications - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - Experience programming with at least one software programming language ### Preferred qualifications - 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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