Software Development Engineer, Tax Engine

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 Amazon Tax Platform Services is the place for you.

We are responsible for the tax calculation platform providing the core services that calculate taxes (sales tax and VAT) for all Amazon sales physical and digital globally. 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 team stays 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 software engineers who thrive on complex problems to operate complex and mission-critical systems under high loads. Our systems manage hundreds of millions of records and respond to millions of service requests per minute.

The successful candidate is expected to contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle including design development documentation testing and operations. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills be self-driven and deliver high quality results in our Java Linux and AWS-based environment.

- 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

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually