Software Development Engineer II, Outbound Delivery Team

The Outbound Communication Services team operates the foundational systems that enable Amazon and its subsidiaries to communicate with customers on Whatsapp Email SMS and Push endpoints. Our mission is to successfully transmit selected messages to customers ensuring high availability and low latency and gathering near real-time feedback from the endpoints to create closed loop optimizations.

We are passionate about building scalable scalable software which processes billions of transactions and very large TPS. We constantly improve our technical foundation and customer experience. As a Software Development Engineer on the team youll have huge impact on how customers including friends and family engage with Amazon.

We love to work with smart people who have a strong sense of ownership and strong engineering mindset. You are a technical leader for your team and a great mentor. You provide perspective and context for technology choices. Youre up to the challenge of real time messaging strategies latency TPS mobile network limitations device fragmentation and building an end-to-end platform that internal Amazon teams integrate with. You motivate your team to pursue ambiguous situations and rapidly produce prototypes for a more personalized experience. You outline paths from prototype to product. You deeply invest in each colleagues career growth improving their technical knowledge and defining your teams operational metrics.

As a Software Development Engineer you will participate in the full development cycle end-to-end the design development implementation testing and produce comprehensive usable software documentation of large-scale distributed software applications. Translate functional requirements into robust scalable supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture. Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools. Taking your ideas from inception to deployment you will apply your software engineering expertise to shape refine and redefine our systems. You will come up with new data-driven ways to continuously improve our solutions and to empower business owners to use them.

We strongly believe in fostering a great team culture of appreciation inclusion and diversity. Weekly game nights and virtual happy hours provide us opportunities to have fun socialize and foster great team collaboration.

- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons 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.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually