Software Development Engineer, AFT Sortation Material Flow

at  Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC

• 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
  Do you ever wonder how the packages show up at your door when you ordered from Amazon?
  Amazon’s global fulfillment business is one of the largest and most complex operations in the world. Our technologically advanced warehouses are at the center. They form the invisible back half of Amazon that magically turns your click of a button into a product at your door. Amazon Sortation Technologies are a key part of that solution, enabling the flow of inventory into and out of warehouses and the consolidation of items for a shipment.
  Would you like to use your engineering or computer science background to optimize and solve complex problem’s in Amazon Fulfillment Technologies? Are you interested in building algorithms that predict the state of downstream systems and make decisions in real-time? As a Software Development Engineer, you will be tasked to develop our next generation of systems, work that includes controlling sorters and workcells scaling our systems to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent transactions. The candidate in this role will have an opportunity to own design and development of distributed systems on AWS platform. You will influence system design and implementation to ensure the best user experience for maximum adoption. You will contribute to a wide range of projects in a highly symbiotic and fast-paced environment. You will become part of a world-class engineering team solving complex problems at scale.
  Dedication to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance services and architectures require exceptional technical expertise. If you have that type of expertise, you enjoy working on complex system software, you are customer centric, and you are motivated about building systems that can be operated at global scale with minimal human intervention, then we want to talk to you!

Key job responsibilities

• The successful candidate will be responsible for driving projects from design to completion.
• The role includes reviewing other members code work.
• The role includes on-call support for AFT Sortation services once ramped up.
• Participation in team design reviews is also a requirement of this position.
• A key responsibility of an SDE II is also mentorship of junior team members.

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

• The successful candidate will be responsible for driving projects from design to completion.
• The role includes reviewing other members code work.
• The role includes on-call support for AFT Sortation services once ramped up.
• Participation in team design reviews is also a requirement of this position.
• A key responsibility of an SDE II is also mentorship of junior team members