Software Engineer - Amazon, Vancouver

About the role

Are you passionate about enabling millions of customers around the world to buy anything, anywhere, anytime? Dealing with large scale distributed systems, orchestrating the entire retail ordering workflow? We, the Ordering team, need strong software development engineers, able to dive deep into abstract problems and come up with innovative designs to help us continuously make our platform ready for our current and future challenges.

Software development engineers at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end to end and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions of customers around the world. At Amazon an SDE can expect to design flexible and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing by utilizing your skills in data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming. Come to Amazon and work in one of our teams in the eCommerce services group.

Your day begins with a team stand-up where you sync with colleagues on progress and priorities. From there, you will dive into developing new features, building tools, or creating mechanisms that incrementally improve how things work. You will engage in thoughtful code reviews, collaborate with teammates to solve technical challenges, and apply your reasoning skills to navigate ambiguous problems. Throughout the day, you will balance writing high-quality code with operational responsibilities, always keeping an eye on both immediate deliverables and the long-term vision.

Key duties

• Design and implement scalable software solutions that simplify complex problems, balancing immediate needs with long-term architectural vision
• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle including scoping, design, code, testing, deployment, and maintenance of critical systems
• Participate actively in code reviews, providing meaningful technical feedback to team members and ensuring high-quality, maintainable code
• Drive operational excellence by identifying root causes of issues and implementing permanent solutions that improve team processes and software quality
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and peers to understand business requirements and deliver solutions that balance customer needs with technical constraints

Qualifications

To qualify for these Amazon jobs in Vancouver, applicants must meet the following basic and preferred criteria:

• 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
• 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

Compensation and perks

The base salary range for this position in Vancouver, BC is 114,800.00 to 191,800.00 CAD annually. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Amazon offers a comprehensive total rewards package to support its workforce:

• Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, and basic life and AD and D insurance
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan
• Paid time off
• Other resources to improve health and well-being