Software Development Engineer, Employee Listening

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company in Toronto is seeking a software developer to work on large distributed projects. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in software development, strong programming skills, and familiarity with AWS and big data technologies. This role offers competitive benefits and emphasizes work-life balance.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Maternity and Parental Leave Options

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) Plan

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years in design or architecture of systems.
• Experience programming in at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Deliver large distributed projects to delight customers.
• Write high-quality, efficient, testable code.
• Own and operate the systems built.

Skills

Software programming

System architecture

Big data technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Overview

The Amazon Management Experiences (AMX) team, comprising 1,400+ employees, builds innovative platforms that help Amazonians build rewarding careers. We develop and maintain key solutions including Ivy for talent management, Forte for evaluation processes, and Embark for personalized onboarding. Our team combines psychology and technology to create tools that drive actionable insights for managers and leaders.

Use your expert technical skills and experience to deliver state of the art employee listening technology!

Our vision is to deliver an employee listening system that helps build a workplace where Amazonians can invent and deliver on behalf of customers. We put employee listening data, metrics, and insights in the right places to drive high quality, high velocity, high impact decisions.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Work with technical leaders across the org to deliver large distributed projects to delight our customers

• Write high-quality, efficient, testable code

• Build highly available, secure systems

• Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale"

• Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry

• Own and operate the systems that you build

• Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, release, operations, and process improvement as a member of the team

• Get firsthand experience engineering with AWS services such as Glue, Athena, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and others

A day in the life

Your typical day involves architecting and building robust solutions that power critical business initiatives. You\'ll participate in technical design discussions, write and review code, and optimize existing solutions for performance and reliability. You\'ll dive deep into production issues, implement solutions that enhance system stability, and build new capabilities into our platforms. Cross-team collaboration is key, as you\'ll work closely with various teams to maintain system requirements and optimize workflows.

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony and offer flexibility in working hours. While the position involves on-call responsibilities (typically one week every two months), we work to ensure our systems are fault tolerant and continuously improve our infrastructure to minimize disruptions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

• Maternity and Parental Leave Options

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• 401(k) Plan

Team and Culture

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including: If you\'re passionate about solving complex technical challenges at scale and want to make an impact on millions of customers worldwide, we\'d love to hear from you.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• 2+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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