Job opening - Software Development Manager at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

Are you a technical leader who wants to own critical, highly scalable systems, and spur innovation? Can you attract and grow the engineering talent needed for those kinds of challenges? Are you interested in the bits and bytes and also the business opportunities?

The successful candidate is expected to be a hands-on technical manager who understands and sets a high bar for all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle including: design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment. We're looking for people who are smart and can get things done.
Amazon Identity Services is looking for software engineers who like to solve complex problems, and relish the challenges of building and operating complex, distributed, mission critical systems under extreme loads. Our systems manage hundreds of millions of recor! ds, and serve millions of service requests. Do you think you are up to the challenge?

Would you like to work on one of the world's largest transactional distributed systems? How about working with customers and peers from the entire range of Amazon's business on cool new features? Whether you're passionate about building highly scalable and reliable systems or a software developer who likes to solve business problems, Identity &Tax Services is the place for you.

We are responsible for the tax calculation platform. We provide the core service that calculates the correct amount of sales tax, use tax, and/or VAT tax for all transactions on Amazon. 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 challenges include keeping up with the global tax landscape as well as computing complex calculations correctly and quickly, thousands of times a ! second, and each one needs to be right.

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* 5+ years of experience, with at least 2 years managing development teams
* Experience in organizing projects and delivering quality releases on schedule
* Experience in building and leading development of complex software systems
* Good judge of top software engineering talent, and ability to grow their careers
* Ability to work well with clients and juggle competing demands
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills

* Experience managing distributed/client-server software development

If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=1569702-2668-6142

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