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Amazon Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Canada in Toronto, Ontario
Description
The Canada Technology team focuses on building innovative solutions for our Canadian customers. Does the challenge and ownership that comes from leading and driving large cross-organizational projects and initiatives for one of the largest online marketplaces excite you? Do you want to launch new products, features, and services used by over 15 million fellow Canadians? Do you want to enrich Canadian lives by bringing world class shopping and selling experiences to their fingertips? If the answer is yes, then we want to talk to you!
Amazon.ca is the Canadian gateway that brings buyers and sellers together. Our retail customers depend on us to give them access to every product at the best possible price. Our sellers depend on us to give them a platform to launch their business into every home and marketplace. Making this happen is the mission of every engineer on the Amazon Canada Tech Team.
We are currently looking for talented Software Development Engineers to join our engineering group in Toronto, ON. Ideal candidates are leaders and trailblazers who aren’t afraid of tackling systems of massive scale and layered complexity. They are able to deliver on ambiguous requirements by putting themselves in the shoes of our customers to deliver the right experience. They are passionate about writing code and love to build distributed systems that are transactional, scalable, high throughput, fault tolerant and always available. They are able to design and develop beautiful front-end UI as well as the massively scalable back-end services to support it. We’re looking for engineers who are comfortable driving the end to end solution and who can do so in an autonomous creative manner. If this describes you, then we would love to discuss this opportunity further!
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Toronto, ON, CAN
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
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
2+ years of building production software experience
Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities
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
Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
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