Software Dev Engineer II, GPTech

The Amazon Payments organization has several positions available for creative and independent engineers with a passion for scalable high-performance services to define and build Amazons Payments Acceptance & Experience systems and launch new payment methods across Amazons global portfolio. You will use your experience to drive innovative customer-focused payment solutions to provide local paying experiences for Amazons customers around the globe.

As a member of the Amazon Payment Services Team you will invent new features develop distributed services and build a massively scalable rock-solid platform solution using object-oriented Java on various UNIX-flavored platforms. We are a fast-paced environment using agile methodology and lightweight SOA design patterns. We encourage innovation and expect developers to take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle.

If you are a strong developer with experience and interest in distributed systems and databases performance and scalability wed like to talk to you.

Key job responsibilities
As a software development engineer you will:

Define design and implement multi-tier distributed services that secure and serve customers payment data support cool new initiatives such as mobile payments and provide first-class customer experience on Amazons websites and mobile devices.
Be involved in designing implementing and testing of major features in the next generation of Amazons payments platform.
Estimate engineering effort plan implementation and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality performance scalability reliability and adherence to development goals and principles.
Effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in large organization (software development QA Project/Release Management Build and Release etc).

- 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