Software Development Manager, Direct Tax Technology

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Development Manager for their Direct Tax Technology team in London. This role involves leading a team of engineers to develop innovative tax solutions using modern technology. Candidates should have extensive engineering and team management experience, with a focus on delivering impactful technology solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 8+ years leading multi-tier web services development.

Responsibilities

• Manage tax technology challenges with scalable solutions.
• Lead product development and partner with other teams.
• Support customers through reporting and compliance cycles.

Skills

Engineering experience

Team management

Multi-tier web services

Software development life cycle

Product management collaboration

Job description

Software Development Manager, Direct Tax Technology

Job ID: 2984671 | Amazon Development Centre (India) Private Limited

Are you passionate about building innovative solutions that revolutionize how tax processes are modeled, executed, and continuously optimized for speed and accuracy? Join the Direct Tax Technology team, where we're tackling one of Amazon's most exciting opportunities in the Tax Technology space. We are still Day 1 and have an exciting road map to build Generative AI (LLM) powered tools to help scale Tax professionals for years to come.
We are a team passionate about revolutionizing the experience for Direct Tax professionals across Amazon, all while working with modern tech stacks that keep operational load minimal. Our mission is transformative: we are building next-generation Tax tools that will fundamentally change how Tax professionals manage Tax processes.
Amazon seeks an innovative, capable, and motivated individual to be a Software Development Manager (SDM) on the Direct Tax Technology team, based in Hyderabad, India. The role is responsible for ensuring the tax professionals of Amazon's Global Tax Reporting and Compliance organization (R&C) are supported in their mission with world-class technology and processes built on AWS.
As a Software Development Manager, you will lead and build a team of world-class software engineers. You and your team will drive product development and partner with other Amazon teams and businesses to deliver highly available and customer-obsessed tools and services. This role is expected to lead by example to earn the trust of your team and customers.


Key job responsibilities
• Manage tax technology challenges with scalable solutions delivered in a quick-and-nimble fashion
• Manage and lead efforts that can involve multiple teams and deliver solutions with impact across the R&C organization
• Be a trusted advisor to R&C customers and engage on projects with high degrees of complexity and business criticality.
• Manage requirements, design, build and rollout solutions.
• Lead initiatives with multiple stakeholders and manage the complexity of competing needs and timelines.
• Support customers through reporting and compliance 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 multiple 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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