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Software Development Manager, Tax Engine

Amazon
Vancouver, CAN
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
CAD 171,400 to CAD 286,200 annually
Discovered Yesterday
Software development managementEngineering team managementDistributed systemsSystem design and architectureMulti-tier web servicesReliability and scalability

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Role overview

Amazon's eCommerce Services group is hiring a Software Development Manager for its Tax Engine.

The team classifies billions of catalogue products and calculates tax for transactions across Amazon's global platform.

The engineering services are designed for resilience and high peak traffic, and use language models at scale for tax classification.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and directly manage a team of engineers, including process and quality-of-service improvements.
  • Set strategic direction, manage software projects, and coordinate resources across teams.
  • Work with tax specialists, product teams, and applied scientists on predictive and generative AI problems, including language comprehension, causal reasoning, and active learning.
  • Develop customer-facing experiences and scalable, reliable distributed systems.

Basic qualifications

  • 3+ years of engineering team management experience and 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
  • 3+ years designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • 8+ years leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
  • Knowledge of engineering practices across the software, hardware, and networks lifecycle, including coding standards, reviews, source control, builds, testing, certification, and live-site operations.
  • Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership about requirements, product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
  • Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching, and managing software engineers.

Compensation

  • The base salary range is CAD 171,400 to CAD 286,200 annually for Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • Total compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.
  • Benefits include health coverage, RRSP, DPSP, paid time off, and other wellbeing resources.

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