Software Development Engineer, Selling Partner Financial Technology

Overview

Amazon Selling Partner Services team drives the Selling On Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell on Amazon's Marketplaces. More than half of shipments for Amazon customers are generated from this business. The team is focused on building a technology platform that will support the explosive business growth in existing markets, streamline the business for Amazon and the Selling partners and launch business in new markets and establish a fair marketplace.

Our team is seeking engineers with broad technical skills to help us optimize how we synthesize massive amounts of data and complex business rules into mission critical financial information. As a member of this team you will employ object oriented techniques in Java, DynamoDB, Postgres and ElasticSearch skills to help us support Amazon's next generation of selling partner services. Along the way you'll gain and leverage a unique understanding of how Amazon.com works; from the numerous software systems that comprise the website's back‑end, to the details of our business model, and the relationships we're establishing with an ever‑growing network of selling partners who depend on Amazon.com to run their businesses.

The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, and a passion for maintaining highly reliable, distributed systems which operate 24/7/365. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively with internal end‑users, cross‑functional software development teams, and technical support/sustaining engineering teams to solve problems and deliver successfully against high operational standards of system availability and reliability. We look for engineers who are excellent communicators, self‑motivated, flexible, hardworking, and who like to have fun!

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, development, implementation, testing and documentation of large‑scale, multi‑tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services using Java, Object Oriented Design and Distributed Programming.
• Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
• Participate in the full development cycle, end‑to‑end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
• Produce comprehensive, usable software documentation.
• Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
• Mentor junior development engineers.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 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.

EEO Statement

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Salary and Benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well‑being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

Location and Salary Range

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually