Software Development Engineer, Web Frameworks, Web Frameworks

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 114,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a passionate Software Development Engineer to join its Web Frameworks team in Vancouver, Canada. The successful candidate will contribute to developing features for Amazon’s widely used Java frameworks, influencing millions of users and enhancing the developer experience through innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop features for Amazon’s Java development frameworks.
• Make security and maintenance updates to the Java framework.
• Develop testing automation to maintain the Java development framework.

Skills

Java

Software Development

Design Patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Web Frameworks, Web Frameworks

The Amazon Store Presentation Frameworks organization is seeking a passionate Software Development Engineer for its Web Frameworks team. The Web Frameworks team is chartered with creating Amazon’s most used web frameworks used to build Amazon Store experiences that hundreds of millions of shoppers use every day. Our technologies empower thousands of teams in the Store to to efficiently author secure, defect free code to create innovative customer experiences. You will also lead in experimenting with applying GenAI technologies to simplify how this software is deployed and adopted by builders.

We are looking for a passionate software developer to drive the technical innovation to revolutionize the builder experience of developing on Amazon Store. Your immediate customers are other developers, and your ideas and code will touch hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide. We are leveraging emergent technologies such as GenAI and large language models to increase the efficiency of our tier-1 production services, reduce the manual steps in operations, execute upgrade campaigns across 2,000+ applications, and improve the developer experience of Amazon engineers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to develop features to Amazon’s most used Java development framework. The right candidate will possess a strong Java development background and has experience developing production quality code on a regular cadence. You will develop new features in Java, make regular security and maintenance updates to vulnerabilities in the Java framework, and develop new testing automation to reduce the total cost of maintaining the Java development framework.

A day in the life
The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and will influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

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

- 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

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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The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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