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Job summary
Amazon is looking for a leaders to expand Global Tax Platform that powers billions of dollars of accurate payments across multiple lines of business worldwide Amazon is seeking a rock star Software Development Manager who will own and shape the future of our Taskless Tax Technology delivery capabilities to process withholding taxes applicable on invoices and making related payments, provide financial data integration and process global withholding tax requirements across Amazon.
Can you work at the scale of the biggest Internet companies?
The solutions that you will deploy must scale to accommodate rapid processing and integration with large enterprise customers. However, to add to the challenge, the solutions must also support integration with highly scaled systems.
Are you ready to create best in class taxation systems to expand one of the world’s largest e-commerce engines?
If so, come be a member of Amazon’s Taskless Tax Technology team. Taskless Tax Tech builds software systems that ensure compliance for Amazon's global businesses and its subsidiaries and makes it easy for millions of Amazon vendors including publishers, app developers, game developers, marketplace sellers, associates and others to comply for hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions. The software platform is among the largest in the world by volume and complexity handling billions of dollars of payments. Much of our work enables Amazon’s new market or business model launches and happens as part of these enterprise programs. We partner integrally with the CFO organization worldwide, including the central finance functions and line of business leadership. We're constantly looking for opportunities to expand capabilities in new geographies and new lines of business.
Is your next project defining a world class Internet service?
With us, you will be building cutting-edge applications and services in an environment of highly distributed systems used by Amazon Tax teams. Your innovation will provide new functionality for millions of vendors/payees globally with a goal of making it easy to comply with tax regulations.
Do you want to define the future of Internet commerce?
Are you a top-notch software engineer with a creative flare, strong problem-solving skills, the drive to build and ship products often, a solid computer science foundation, and the desire to build Amazon's next generation Internet-facing technology? Come talk with us about joining our team to help our tax teams serve customers better as we expand our capabilities in new geographies and newer lines of business.
Are you up for overcoming challenges in an highly entrepreneurial environment?
Enabling Amazon’s explosive growth requires top talent in our Taskless Tax Technology organization. We are seeking Software Development Managers who will drive next generation architectural and design choices, invent new features, develop distributed services, keep financial data secure, and build a scalable, service-oriented and performance oriented platform for our customers. A successful candidate will be a role model to set an example for building strong and highly-effective teams you can trust, delegate decisions and tasks to others in your organisation, work collaboratively with your stakeholders, build process that drive accountability. As you charter unchartered areas, you embrace ambiguity to innovate with bold bets to drive business growth. You continually solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context aligning your team’s work, goals and priorities with Amazon’s business objectives. You will build flexible systems and processes without over-engineering and choose simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones.
We are seeking someone who has strong technical, project and people skills with a can-do attitude and a focus on delivering high quality software. We move at a fast pace and deliver software iteratively using agile best practices and the latest technologies.
We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect engineers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery.
Join our development team to work hard, have fun and make history. You will join a highly technical and entrepreneurial culture defining and building a taxation experience to complement Amazon’s world-class eCommerce domains. Amazon is a premier place to build, deploy and operate internet-scale services.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Must be technically credible to lead teams of world-class software engineers and technical program managers. Must be able to make the right design decisions related to product features and technology choices.
· Deep understanding of overall systems development life cycle including various methodologies (agile, waterfall, iterative)
· Experienced in developing the long-term strategy for the settlement platforms and translate that into an achievable roadmap
· Experienced in building and managing teams that design and deliver scalable and extensible distributed systems to address complex business challenges.
· Understands how to scope and justify resources and budget needs to senior leaders and finance partners
· Consistent focus on operational excellence and security of systems.
· Experience with open source technologies, object-oriented design, and agile development methodologies