Software Development Engineer, Global Tax Services - Data

Global Tax Data (GTD) team seeks a capable and motivated individual to be a Software Development Engineer in the Tax Technology team. The role is responsible for ensuring the tax professionals of Amazon’s Direct Tax Reporting and Compliance organization (R&C) are supported in their mission by world-class technology and processes. The impact of their work is evidenced in improved efficiency in processing, empowered customers and a Tax department that continues to meet the unique challenges of Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• Tackle tax technology challenges with scalable solutions delivered in a quick-and-nimble fashion
• Lead efforts that can involve multiple teams and deliver solutions with impact across the R&C organization
• Be trusted advisors to their R&C customers and engage on projects with high degrees of complexity and business criticality.
• Help define requirements, design, build and rollout solutions.
• Work with multiple stakeholders and manage the complexity of competing needs and timelines.
• Support customers through their business cycles, mentoring, troubleshooting and running processes as needed.
• Understand the solutions we have today, applying them where appropriate and inventing new capabilities when needed.
• Own particular processes and/or parts of our technology toolset, providing subject matter expertise and mentorship
• Listen to customers across the organization and expand our toolset to the benefit of all, avoiding point solutions.
• 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