Amazon Software Development Engineer Amazon Kids 

Canada, Ontario, Old Toronto 

543537755

Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for producing large-scale customer-facing features from inception to delivery and beyond, using best practices and generating positive feedback. You will need to make technical decisions and trade-offs by having a deep understanding of your customers, your business, and your team's software architecture. As an owner, you will also focus on operational excellence, continuously improving your team's development and testing processes. You will troubleshoot, research the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects inside and outside of your domain. You will also be responsible for helping your team train and mentor both current and future engineers.A day in the life
You will work with your engineering peers, product managers, and internal stakeholders to launch software that improves major portions of products, device applications and services in an agile, customer-centric environment. You will incubate ideas, execute projects, and perform experiments to measure success. You will also regularly participate in code reviews, design discussions, and operations reviews, where you will identify problems and propose solutions. You may participate in your team's on-call management on a rotational basis. At times you may work with teams all over the world on cross-cutting initiatives and test prototypes to anticipate customer needs.

- 2+ 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

- 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems