Software Development Engineer II, APUB - 157

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Toronto is seeking a Software Development Engineer to tackle challenging problems and design scalable systems. The role requires over 3 years of professional experience and a strong background in object-oriented programming and systems architecture. Join a dynamic team that drives innovation and transformation in the publishing world.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience of systems.
• Experience programming with at least one programming language.
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.

Responsibilities

• Solve ambiguous business problems with technical solutions.
• Use algorithms and data structures to build scalable systems.
• Design, launch, and re-architect multi-tier systems.

Skills

Problem solving

Object-oriented programming

Algorithms and data structures

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Passionate about books and reading? Books have a long history at Amazon; books were our first retail product, we reinvented reading with Kindle, and today we enable reading across a multitude of surfaces and content types. The Books Content Demand team helps readers find books and authors through relevant content, search results and recommendations, and innovative shopping experiences. We set audacious goals and are looking for people who can help us transform the way we engage with readers and help them find their next book. As a Software Development Engineer, you will provide both strategic and tactical oversight to build the features and functionality required to have a best in class offering to our authors.

You will be able to show your passion for authors and disrupting the publishing world by building and delivering systems at Amazon scale. You will work on projects that require creative thinking and deep understanding of the problem space while collaborating on product definitions with product teams. You challenge yourself and others to come up with better solutions. You are a thought leader, but you don\'t just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by building the solution. Last but not the least; you have a high bar for code quality and passion for design and architecture.

We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing great flexibility in product and technology direction. We will face challenging and interesting problems and at times not know the best path forward. Backed with passionate leaders and a strong team culture, we’ll make hard decisions, understand why and change the world together. Come, join us and build the future!

Key responsibilities

• You will solve ambiguous business problems and map them to elegant technical solutions


• You will use object-oriented concepts, algorithms and data structures to build systems at Amazon scale


• You will design, launch, and re-architect multi-tier systems with large amounts of data

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


• 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

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