Amazon.com.ca, Inc. Hiring for Software Development Engineer (L5) at Canada Full Time

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Job summary

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Amazon is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Amazon Care team. Amazon Care is hybrid telehealth and in-person healthcare offering. Our mission is to deliver the world’s most customer-centric healthcare experience that is personal, transparent, and convenient. We want to make healthcare easy for all.

In this position, we are looking for a Software Development Engineer with extensive experience building service-oriented architectures. We need someone who is motivated to tackle ambiguous situations and leverage technology to build simple, delightful customer experiences. You will propose and build prototypes, extend them to production, and finally, scale them out to millions of users. We expect engineers to continuously learn and get up to speed in unfamiliar areas. You will not just expand your base of knowledge, but train and mentor your teammates to do the same. You know how to develop a quality product by insisting on the highest standards, with tried and true mechanisms to prevent bugs from getting into production.

In this role, you will:

• Be heavily involved with UX and product teams to understand customer needs.
• Design new scalable, secure, and reliable features.
• Be comfortable with integrating with external services.
• Write clean, maintainable code. Perform peer code reviews.
• Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility.
• Able to identify the root cause of defects, introduced by yourself or others.
• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automation, and processes that are used by the whole team for development.
• Mentor team members to promote engineering excellence.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

• Understanding software design principles and computer science fundamentals
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs at scale
• Curiosity and drive to learn new technologies and business domains
• Prior experience building services on a cloud platform (AWS or otherwise)
• Prior experience working for a consumer-facing technology company
• Fluency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Ruby, etc.)

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

The pay range for this position in Colorado is $140k – $160k/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon’s internal or external careers site.

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.