Software Development Engineer, Content Systems
Amazon
Date: 10 hours ago
City: Vancouver, BC
Contract type: Full time

Description
Do you want to build a highly personalized Amazon experience that millions of customers worldwide interact with every time they visit Amazon.com? Are you interested in creating the next generation scheduling application used by thousands of merchandisers and developers across Amazon?
In this role, you will develop and support the face of Amazon's content management and scheduling systems. We choose the best experience for Amazon's customers from millions of pieces of content scheduled. You will work closely with software engineers, UX designers, and Amazon marketers to create and iterate on these experiences. You will be in one of the leading roles in Amazon's content management system with the opportunity to reach millions of customers on one of the highest traffic consumer websites in the world.
Key job responsibilities
In This Role, You Can Expect To
The Content Systems team owns the foundation of merchandising tools at Amazon. Our UIs and APIs provide Amazon employees with the best experience when creating and scheduling content for Amazon's customers. We enforce rules and guardrails through our APIs to protect the Amazon shopping experience. If you are passionate about software engineering and personalized content experiences at scale then we encourage you to apply.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com.ca, ULC
Job ID: A2957298
Do you want to build a highly personalized Amazon experience that millions of customers worldwide interact with every time they visit Amazon.com? Are you interested in creating the next generation scheduling application used by thousands of merchandisers and developers across Amazon?
In this role, you will develop and support the face of Amazon's content management and scheduling systems. We choose the best experience for Amazon's customers from millions of pieces of content scheduled. You will work closely with software engineers, UX designers, and Amazon marketers to create and iterate on these experiences. You will be in one of the leading roles in Amazon's content management system with the opportunity to reach millions of customers on one of the highest traffic consumer websites in the world.
Key job responsibilities
- Build streamlined web applications used by tens of thousands of employees to impact millions of Amazon customers
- Create bar-raising user experiences while working directly with our customers and designers
- Design new applications, APIs, and features that solve customer problems
- Increase code quality through unit, integration, and automated UI testing
- Dive into metrics to find opportunities to lower latencies and optimize service calls
In This Role, You Can Expect To
- Design and build new front-end frameworks for our applications
- Iterate on our tools using feedback from thousands of users
- Partner with designers to drive new user experiences
- Spend some quality, uninterrupted time writing code
The Content Systems team owns the foundation of merchandising tools at Amazon. Our UIs and APIs provide Amazon employees with the best experience when creating and scheduling content for Amazon's customers. We enforce rules and guardrails through our APIs to protect the Amazon shopping experience. If you are passionate about software engineering and personalized content experiences at scale then we encourage you to apply.
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
- 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 in front-end technologies including ReactJS and TypeScript.
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com.ca, ULC
Job ID: A2957298
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