Software Development Engineer II

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RRSP plan

DPSP

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon in Vancouver is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help scale the global retail ordering platform. You will own systems end to end, shipping reliable, high-performance services that handle millions of orders daily.

You’ll design scalable architectures using data structures, algorithms, and OO programming while collaborating with cross-functional partners to improve robustness, efficiency and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of design or architecture experience on large systems.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable and reliable systems for a global scale platform.
• Own end-to-end services and contribute to architectural direction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve robustness and performance.

Skills

System design

Software development

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Are you passionate about enabling millions of customers around the world to buy anything, anywhere, anytime? Dealing with large-scale distributed systems and orchestrating the entire retail ordering workflow?

The Ordering team at Amazon needs strong software development engineers who can dive deep into abstract problems and come up with innovative designs to help continuously make the platform ready for current and future challenges.

SDEs at Amazon work on real-world problems on a global scale, own their systems end to end, and influence the direction of technology that impacts hundreds of millions of customers around the world. At Amazon, an SDE can expect to design flexible and scalable solutions and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing by utilizing skills in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $114,800 – $191,800 CAD annually. Amazon's total compensation package may also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D), RRSP, DPSP, paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being.

3+ years of professional software development experience (non-internship); 3+ years of system design and architecture experience including design patterns, reliability, and scaling; proficiency in at least one programming language; bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred)