Software Development Engineer, GenAI

Amazon Jobs; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in Toronto is seeking a Software Development Engineer to tackle technical challenges and mentor junior engineers. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in computer science and extensive experience with Java, Python, and AWS. This role involves designing and deploying scalable services while partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience contributing to architecture and design of systems.
• Knowledge of full software development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Solve technical challenges and mentor junior engineers.
• Translate business requirements into deliverables and prototypes.
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable distributed services.

Skills

Programming in Java

Programming in Python

AWS expertise

Software engineering best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day.

The Creative X org within Amazon Advertising aims to democratize access to high-quality creative assets, including copy, images and video, by building and productizing generative AI-driven tools for advertisers. We are investing in latent-diffusion and DiT models, LLMs, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and image + video synthesis. The solutions we develop will be deployed for use by self-service advertisers and agencies, as well as available to premium brands that advertise on Amazon.

Key responsibilities

• As a Software Development Engineer, you will solve technical challenges and act as a mentor to other junior engineers.
• Given that this is an early-stage initiative, you\'ll play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and build quick prototypes or proofs of concept in partnership with other technology leaders within the team.
• You will help invent new features, design, develop and deploy highly scalable and reliable distributed services.
• You will work with a variety of core languages (primarily Java and Python) and technologies (AWS).
• You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers and Applied Scientists.
• 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
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience working with Java, Python, and AWS ecosystems

Equal Opportunity

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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