Amazon’s tax team seeks a capable and motivated individual to be a Software Development Engineer in the Direct Tax Technology team, based in Seattle. 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.
Primary 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.