Sr Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Tax Services

• We are looking for software engineers who thrive on complex problems and relish the challenge of operating complex and mission critical systems under extreme loads
• Our systems manage hundreds of millions of records, and respond to millions of service requests per minute
• Do you think you are up to the challenge Or would you like to learn more and stretch your skills and career 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 good verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment
• They need to enjoy working closely with their peers in a group of very smart and talented engineers
• Were looking for people who are smart and can get things done, though the following skill sets provide a good foundation for a quick ramp up to being productive in our Java, Linux and Oracle-based environment
• Were looking for a range of experience, from brilliant and motivated new college graduates to technical leaders with battle-tested wisdom

As a software development engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in the following:

Work with the team to help drive business decisions

Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimisations, cost, and security.

Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables

Write high quality distributed system software

Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team