Overview
About the Role Want to build systems that power one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms? We are looking for engineers who love solving complex, real-world problems at massive scale. Our team builds the core tax calculation and invoicing platform that ensures accurate, compliant transactions across global marketplaces - covering sales tax, VAT, and tax invoicing for physical and digital products. Every calculation matters. We operate in a fast-moving regulatory landscape where tax laws and rates change constantly, and our systems must deliver precision at high throughput - every single time. What You will Do • Partner with the team to inform and drive business decisions through engineering excellence • Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable software solutions focused on performance, cost efficiency, and security • Write high-quality, production-grade distributed system
Full job description
Full Job Description
About the Role
Want to build systems that power one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms? We are looking for engineers who love solving complex, real-world problems at massive scale. Our team builds the core tax calculation and invoicing platform that ensures accurate, compliant transactions across global marketplaces - covering sales tax, VAT, and tax invoicing for physical and digital products.
Every calculation matters. We operate in a fast-moving regulatory landscape where tax laws and rates change constantly, and our systems must deliver precision at high throughput - every single time.
What You will Do • Partner with the team to inform and drive business decisions through engineering excellence • Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable software solutions focused on performance, cost efficiency, and security • Write high-quality, production-grade distributed systems software • Apply software engineering best practices to ensure consistently high-quality deliverables • Work in an agile environment where priorities are clear and impact is immediate • Contribute across the full software development lifecycle - from design and documentation to testing and operations
What We are Looking For We are hiring software engineers who thrive on complexity and take pride in operating mission-critical, high-availability systems. You should be self-driven, a good communicator (both written and verbal), and energized by collaborating with talented peers in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Technical Foundation • Good experience with object-oriented programming languages • Familiarity with Linux-based development environments • Experience with relational database systems • Background in building or operating large-scale distributed systems
Key job responsibilities
Basic Qualifications
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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Requirements & qualifications
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 Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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