Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Description

Ever shopped on Amazon’s retail sites? My guess is, Yes! Wonder how Amazon innovates and decides how to invest in so many products and services? If the answer is yes, then this team is your answer. Even after 25 years of innovation, it’s still Day 1 here in Amazon.

Our team equips Amazon with capability to validate experiments and expand our retail footprint. We scientifically assess customer actions using AI, Machine Learning and Economics. This position will require you to collaborate with software engineers, research scientists, program managers, product managers, marketing managers, business owners, business analysts and designers across Amazon - to build an intuitive experience for our scientific analytics.

With millions of users producing billions of transactions per day, we want you to experience big data at a whole new level. If you would like to own a major product in Amazon, have an entrepreneurial mindset, like to think big and are obsessed with your customers, then you’ve found the right job for you. Let’s have some fun, do some experiments and build things for future.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities

The Software Engineer in our team will need to design and deliver complex software systems, that empowers decision making at Amazon. . They will need to employ Amazon's Leadership Principles in their work, and have fun while doing it. They will need to be open to learning and experimenting, as we innovate for our customers.

In addition to new developments, the engineer will also need to support our existing critical systems, as they play a key role in making decisions for billions of dollars. They will need to invest their time and effort in identifying operational bottlenecks and implement solutions, which will help us scale our systems, capability and improve development experience. They will also play a key role in mentoring and expanding team and our product, be involved in hiring at Amazon (be on the other side of the table).

A day in the life

A day in a life of SDE in our team includes (but is not limited to) working on architecture designs, brainstorming with other engineers and leaders, planning their day-week-month and coding. We have weekly demos, happy hours; bi-weekly retros, and quarterly team events.

About The Team

Customer Forecasting and Valuation works on long term metrics, that help Amazon make business investment decisions. We are the truth seekers of the company, and it comes with its share of challenges. So if you are interested in solving puzzle of Amazon scale, using the best tech possible (while being frugal), this team is for you.

Also, happy to share our connection scores, and talk about our culture commitment.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Vancouver, BC, CAN

Basic Qualifications

• 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 non-internship professional software development experience

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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

Company - Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC

Job ID: A2408692