Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Canada Technology

1 week ago


Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC Full time
Does the challenge and ownership that comes from leading and driving large cross-organizational projects and initiatives for one of the largest online marketplaces excite you? Do you want to launch new products, features, and services used by over 15 million fellow Canadians? Do you want to enrich Canadian lives by bringing world class shopping and selling experiences to their fingertips? If the answer is yes, then we want to talk to you
The Amazon Canada Technology organization focuses on building innovative solutions for our Canadian customers. is the Canadian gateway that brings buyers and sellers together. Our retail customers depend on us to give them access to every product at the best possible price. Our sellers depend on us to give them a platform to launch their business into every home and marketplace. Making this happen is the mission of every engineer on the Amazon Canada Tech Team.

Our technical footprint uses AWS technologies such as Lambda, Dynamo DB, SQL, SNS, SWS, Redshift, S3 and many others in building highly scalable solutions.

We directly shape the future growth of Amazon Canada with the impact of our work visible all around us.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a strong Senior Software Development Engineer to join our engineering group in Vancouver, BC.

The ideal candidates are leaders and trailblazers that do not shy away from taking the lead in thinking ahead, identifying and solving complex ambiguous problems dealing with systems of massive scale and layered complexity.

You will own and create technical architecture and design, and will influence the team's technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach, bearing customer obsession in mind.

Successful candidates are passionate about writing and reviewing code and love to lead the team in building distributed systems that are transactional, scalable with high throughput, fault tolerant and always available.

You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations.

You will push your design and architecture by owning all aspects of solutions end-to-end, through full stack software development.

You will leverage Amazon's industry leading technologies and are on the lookout to bring industry best practices to the team to build modern, distributed systems while being able to balance between diving deep when needed and thinking big and far out.

You should have strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and have a demonstrated track record of delivering high quality results, in a fast-paced environment with proven ability to influence Principal Engineers, teams and leaders at various levels.

If the above describes you, then we would love to discuss this opportunity further

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Vancouver, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 7+ years of noninternship professional software development experience
  • 6+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including objectoriented design
  • Experience partnering with product or program management teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Knowledge (or experience) in the field of generative AI and LLM with ability to understand and/drive meaningful discussions and the practical application of the field in the team


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