Senior Software Development Engineer, Digital Acceleration

Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering, subscriptions, and device management for Prime, Amazon Video, Music, Audible, Alexa, and Kindle, amongst other digital businesses. We process billions of digital purchases every year and enable our digital businesses to grow their businesses worldwide. We are on a mission to be earth's best provider of one-time and recurring digital commerce, delivering a seamless and enjoyable post-purchase customer experience.

Would you like to help us build a large-scale Software-As-A-Service (SAAS) solution for all subscription and membership businesses at Amazon? Are you excited about building distributed systems with a challenging mix of requirements on availability, latency, and consistency? Are you someone who enjoys the challenge of figuring out scalable and reusable technical solutions in the context of business problems with ever-growing complexity? If the answers are yes, our team will offer you all of those opportunities, so please apply!

We build and run mission-critical commerce systems that power all subscription and membership use cases at Amazon. We are responsible for managing all aspects of a subscription's and digital ordering lifecycle at scale and providing the right extensibility in our APIs and data model to support the rapidly growing customization needs by the businesses that we support, including some of the biggest and most complex at Amazon such as Prime worldwide and Alexa smart home subscriptions.

Key Job Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will lead projects involving multiple teams in all aspects of the SDLC using an agile process. As the systems need to be built from the ground up, you will have an opportunity to make a long-lasting impact! To be successful in this position, you will have a strong background in Algorithms, Data Structures, Java, and NoSQL. The ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and orally) and work well in a team are key competencies. You should be able to quickly adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable and maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems. Experience working with high-traffic, scalable services is a plus.

A Day in the Life

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing the tier-1 digital acceleration services, while upholding the OE (operational excellence) bar. Candidates will need to think outside the box to quickly come up with innovative solutions to problems that are unique to Amazon. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing real-time scalable systems, a strong technical ability, excellent deep dive and troubleshooting skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Location

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

Vancouver, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
3. 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
4. Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent