Sr. Software Development Engineer, Charge Calc

About the Team

Charge Calculation is the backbone of every purchase on Amazon. We own the systems that orchestrate how charges are computed represented and communicated across the entire consumer buying journey from cart to confirmation. Our services sit at a critical intersection of Amazons eCommerce platform touching dozens of upstream and downstream systems that power the purchase experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

This is high-impact work: designing solutions that balance correctness performance and resilience all while the business evolves rapidly around us.

Why Join Us

- Scale that matters Your solutions run in the critical path of every Amazon purchase impacting hundreds of millions of customers daily
- Meaningful problems Design and deliver systems that ensure accuracy and reliability in one of the most important domains in eCommerce
- Shape whats next Help drive Amazons multi-year strategic growth initiatives architecting solutions that dont yet exist
- Grow with great people Collaborate with sharp senior engineers in a high-ownership environment where your ideas make a real difference

Key job responsibilities
Architect & Lead Large-Scale Technical Solutions Own the end-to-end design of complex distributed systems from broadly defined business problems to production-ready architectures that scale to millions of customers.

Drive Engineering Excellence & Best Practices Raise the bar across the team by championing operational excellence code quality security and reliability establishing patterns and standards that endure as the system grows.

Mentor & Grow Engineering Talent Serve as a technical leader and force-multiplier coaching engineers leading design reviews and cultivating a culture of ownership and continuous learning across the organization.

Shape Technical Strategy with Business Impact Bridge technology and business by deeply understanding customer needs influencing the teams long-term roadmap and ensuring engineering investments align with strategic objectives.

About the team
The Charge Calculation team is a crucial part of Amazons eCommerce foundation. We own systems integral to the full lifecycle of consumer purchasing on Amazon. Our team orchestrates charge calculations and provides comprehensive charge summaries to clients. We also own the model that defines charge representation in the workflow impacting numerous up and downstream services in the purchase journey.


- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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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 - 150700.00 - 251700.00 CAD annually