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Job summary
Come build the future as a software development engineer at Amazon, where you will be inspired working alongside best-in-class inventors and innovators. You'll create meaningful experiences that deliver on the ever-evolving needs of our customers, and your work will impact millions of people around the world.

At Amazon, we are committed to making your work experience as enjoyable as the experiences as you'll be creating for our customers. That is why Amazon offers flexibility and remote work options to allow for optimal work/life harmony.

As an Amazon software engineer, you will solve unique and complex problems at a rapid pace, utilizing the latest technologies to create solutions that are highly scalable. There are unlimited opportunities at Amazon, where developing your career across a wide range of teams is highly supported.

Ready to get started? Apply once through Best Fit Job Match, and get matched from thousands of open software development roles based on your preferred team, tech stack, domain, language and more. The best part? Best Fit Job Match gives you a choice of open roles based on your preferences. You'll speak to the hiring managers, and then you choose your team! Save hours on your job search and reduce the stress.

We're hiring across Canada. If Toronto is your preference, some of the teams hiring software engineers in Toronto include but aren't limited to:

Advertising: Invent on behalf of millions of Amazon advertisers using the latest big data and machine learning technologies. On the Advertising team, you can create automated campaign management experiences by optimizing ad spend, and allocating budgets that provide accurate, actionable and timely conversion measurement for all Amazon ad products or innovate ad analysis tools that quantify revenue impact. Join Advertising as a Software Engineer to shape the future of e-commerce.
Operations Technology: Shape the future of transportation planning and execution on a global scale, that impacts hundreds of Fulfillment Centers (FCs), thousands of Amazonians, and millions of customers across the world. Your technology will support thousands of operators worldwide to design, build and run the best-in-class Amazon operations network. Join Operations Technology where you'll build intelligent software to make operations faster, more reliable, and less costly, providing a better and less expensive experience for our customers.
Devices: Have independent technical ownership on new engaging customer features, products, and supporting architecture on a day-to-day and weekly basis on the Devices team. You'll work on a new or existing device such as Alexa, Luna, Fire TV, or Echo, while learning new in-demand skills like building voice control interfaces or scalable API platforms.
HR Technology (People Experience & Technology): Create a seamless employment experience for millions of Amazonians and/or candidates on People Experience & Technology. Whether supporting technologies for onboarding, time and attendance, compensation, amazon.jobs, or recruiting, you'll deliver robust feature sets, elegant designs, intuitive user interfaces and systems that make it easy for Amazonians to excel at performing critical business functions.
Consumer Technology: Build new generation features and products for amazon.com, constantly improving the customer and seller experience for billions around the globe. Whether building site wide features such as reviews and recommendations, category specific software for the likes of Pharmacy, Electronics, Digital Software and Video Games or seller infrastructure, there are a variety of complex problems to tackle using a range of technologies in the design of your technical solutions.
Prime Video: Give consumers the world's best-in-class digital video customer experience with Prime Video. Own end-to-end design of features and systems that deliver an entertainment destination unlike any other-fast, reliable, personal, effortless, and delightful. On Prime Video, you'll deal with the complexities of big data as you carry content and metadata from supply chain through to the last degree of polish in our client applications on Amazon and third-party devices.

These are just some of the teams now hiring in Toronto. Depending on your preferences and expertise, you will own the front-end, back-end, or full stack design and development of product features, building scale, efficiency, and differentiated customer experiences. We're looking for software engineers passionate about building software solutions end-to-end, have strong software development experience delivering at scale solutions, and systems design skills. You should have a demonstrated ability delivering within a DevOps delivery model from requirements analysis, design, development, test, CI/CD, security implementation, and operational excellence with the ability to work cross-functionally with Product Managers, business stakeholders and other tech teams.

Apply today through Best Fit Job Match and get matched to your ideal role!

Relocation and competitive pay and benefits is offered for this position.

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If you would like to refer an SDE2 to Amazon, please submit their resume to this posting and their will be handled by the PathFinder team.

If you are an existing Amazonian looking to make an internal move, please directly apply to a business specific job posting and connect with the hiring team for that role.

Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for technical design and delivery of software components.
• Works closely with our customers and stakeholders to understand their requirements, analyzes various technical options and proposes solutions with proof of concept.
• Translates the proposals into technical design, coordinates development effort with other SDEs, tests and delivers features in production.
• Performs code reviewers for peer engineers and provides constructive feedback.
• Ensures that the solutions proposed are logical, testable, maintainable, and efficient.
• Drives engineering best practices for continuous process improvements in all phases of the software development lifecycle.

A day in the life
A Software Development Engineer (SDE) at Amazon works on real world problems on a global scale, owns their systems end to end and influences the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions of customers around the world. You can expect to design flexible scalable, and complex solutions in large-scale computing by utilizing your skills in data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming. Coming to Amazon gives you the opportunity to work on a small development team in one of our many rapidly growing organizations.

You will learn all about how to design, implement and test highly scalable solutions using the AWS cloud platform and its many products, working with best in class professionals.

About the team
Our focus is to design and build online experiences and assessments for candidates, architect digital ecosystems and connected platforms for our employees, and provide tools and services that help enable recruiters.

The work is interesting, challenging, and rewarding. We are redefining how to design and develop to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring. The space is deeply human, we support people so that they can support themselves and their families.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

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.