Software Development Engineer, INTech LatAm

DESCRIPTION

Amazon brings buyers and sellers together. Our retail customers depend on us to give them access to every product at the best possible price. Our sellers depend on us to give them a platform to launch their business into every home and marketplace. Making this happen is the mission of every engineer on the INTech LatAm (International Technology Latin America) team. We’re looking for leaders and trailblazers who aren’t afraid of tackling massive scale, layered complexity, and ambiguous requirements. If you want to create exciting new features, bringing unique experiences and value to our customers, then we want to talk to you. If you want to work on the fulfillment technologies that bring increased selection and a premier delivery experience across all of Latin America, we want to talk to you. If you want to work on internet scale to positively touch millions of customers’ experiences then we want to talk to you! We’re the INTech LatAm Expansion development team. We improve the shopping and buying experience for Latin American customers and businesses who shop on amazon.com.br and amazon.com.mx, and we do all this while ensuring our designs adhere to legal and tax compliance in some of the most complicated tax authorities in the world. We work on leveraging US inventory to unlock greater selection, lower prices, and faster delivery for our customers in Mexico and Brazil. We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about writing code and who love to build distributed systems that are transactional, scalable, high throughput, fault tolerant and always available. We’re looking for engineers who are able to design and develop beautiful front-end UI as well as the massively scalable backend services to support it. We’re seeking engineers who are comfortable driving the end to end solution and who can do so in an autonomous and creative manner. Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our growing team of developers in Vancouver. On our team, you will work on many highly available Tier-1 services, and will be at the forefront of enabling experiences tailor-made for our 300 million plus customers. You will be tasked to think big and find new ways on how we can more efficiently expand services in LatAm, and work daily with massively scalable distributed systems processing hundreds of billions of requests a day. You will be responsible for the design, development, test, and deployment of these services, at the same upholding the bar for OE (operational excellence). Candidates will need to think outside the box to quickly come up with innovative solutions to problems that are unique to Amazon. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing real time scalable systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. A day in the life
In a typical day you will be tasked with owning and leading the investigation and architecture for expanding Amazon Retail features to LatAm. You will need to find ways to optimize or automate those features, or build relevant tooling. You will then be writing the code for those features and co-ordinating with engineers from other teams to deploy your code in front of customers in production. As an experienced engineer you will give advice in your peers' code reviews, design reviews and operational reviews. And on the days when you go into the office you can enjoy free barista-made espresso drinks and you might be tasked with a friendly game of table tennis. About the team
The INTech LatAm Expansion team is a small team (~30 people) split across Canada (primarily in Vancouver) and Mexico City, made up of experienced Amazonians who tackle complex and ambiguous problems everyday. We keep our on-call load very low, so we can focus on solving bigger picture problems. We are a social group and generally organize a team event at least once per month and happy hours every few weeks. Recent activities in Vancouver include bowling, GoKarting, and hiking on Cypress Mountain. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Vancouver, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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