Amazon Sr Software Development Engineer Amazon Ads - WASE 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

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In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of significant portions of the product development, and serve as a leader and mentor for other engineers in their areas of work. You will help set the features, architecture, and best practices of the team, and have significant influence on our overall tech strategy. Creating a reliable, scalable, and high performance service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.

 The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about new opportunities, and have a demonstrable track record of success delivering new features or products. He or she has strong OO design and implementation experience, strong knowledge of web protocols, an in-depth knowledge of distributed systems architectures, and has led or mentored junior engineers. Experience with web-based applications and/or web services-based applications, especially at massive scale, will be very applicable and helpful.Vancouver, BC, CAN

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5+ 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