Full-time

10,001+ employees · Technology, Information and Internet

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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.

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.

Are you ready to create systems to expand one of the world’s largest e-commerce engines?

If so, come be a member of Amazon’s Taskless Technology team. Taskless Tech builds software systems that ensure compliance for Amazon businesses and its subsidiaries and makes it easy for for millions of Amazon vendors including publishers, app developers, game developers, marketplace sellers, associates and others to comply for tens of billions of dollars in transactions. We're constantly looking for opportunities to expand capabilities in new geographies and new lines of business.

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 intuitive world class UI for Amazon Tax teams to pay millions of vendors.

Amazon is a premier place to build, deploy and operate Internet-scale services.

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 selling experience to complement Amazon’s world-class websites.

Amazon’s Taskless Tax Technology team operates software platforms that are among the largest in the world by volume and complexity. We interact upstream with all of Amazon’s businesses globally and the majority of our projects are cross-functional. 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 looking to hire thought leaders who will drive architectural and design choices, invent new features, develop distributed services, and build a scalable, service-oriented platform for our people. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect developers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will drive the architecture of next generation of tools and technologies for growing compliance needs of the organization as unlocking expansion in multiple countries and new businesses. You will be a role model to set an example for engineers in your team as well as influence across teams. You will build highly scaleable and secure softwares. You will develop algorithms for efficient and error free transactions as well as ensuring tractability of every transaction in real-time. You will build algorithms to get insights from transaction data for potential savings for Amazon. You will build processes that drive accountability within your team, where people assume and take responsibility for actions and decisions. You will solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.


Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong coding skills
• Passion for building scalable, global, complex systems to solve problems with proven ability to deliver high quality software.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and concepts.
• Innovative and creative with Web technologies to build high performing websites and web services.
• Demonstrated proficiency with AJAX, Javascript, CSS is a plus.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong coding skills
• Passion for building scalable, global, complex systems to solve problems with proven ability to deliver high quality software.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and concepts.
• Innovative and creative with Web technologies to build high performing websites and web services.
• Demonstrated proficiency with AJAX, Javascript, CSS is a plus.
  

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Company - Amazon UK Services Ltd.

Job ID: A2235706