Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC

E-Commerce

SoftwareDevelopmentEngineer,AmazonPublishingFoundation

CA$80–192k Toronto, Ontario, Canada FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Software Development Engineer, Amazon Publishing Foundation at Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC. Skills: Software development, System design, Cloud computing. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software. Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables”

Industry & Context.

E Commerce
Problems you'll solve

Problem solving; Analytical skills; Root cause analysis; Debugging

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5+ years of software development experience, Experience with at least one modern object-oriented language

Nice to Have

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Experience with distributed systems, Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Experience with machine learning or data science

What You'll Do.

Manage individual project priorities

Participate in code reviews

Collaborate with other engineers and product managers

Mentor junior engineers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Code reviews

Communication Scope

Technical documentation

Process & Methodology

Agile, Scrum

Full Job Description

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 invent solutions using AI advancements to delight our customers. You are a thought leader, backed by the ability to deliver concrete solutions. You hold a high bar not just for your software solutions, but for your peers as well. 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 job 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 * You will quickly adapt to fast-pa

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