Software Development Engineer
Internship Victoria, Canada Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering
Job description
DESCRIPTION
About Us
AbeBooks, an Amazon company, connects millions of buyers with booksellers from around the world. We provide a marketplace for hundreds of millions of items that includes everything from exquisite manuscripts and long lost books from your childhood, to postcards from Mohandas Gandhi and signed first editions of “A Farewell to Arms”.
About the Job
AbeBooks’ mission is “to help people find and buy any book from any bookseller”. As a part of this mission we work daily to help customers discover our marketplace and the millions of books available from thousands of booksellers. This is challenging and equally rewarding for a truly global marketplace for rare and collectable books. We feel proud to provide a seamless experience to buyers from over 200 countries purchasing products from sellers representing over 60 countries. Our sites get millions of page views every day, and we promote millions of books across several marketing channels. We like to think we know what we’re doing, and we’re always keen on learning and improving.
As an engineer you will have an incredible opportunity to learn and navigate among dozens of products that make up AbeBooks marketplace. You will appreciate the complexity of the business domain, and learn to value simplicity in software intensive systems. You will have occasion to work with Amazon teams and Amazon technologies as we take advantage of capabilities of our parent company. Last but not the least, you will be surrounded by smart and approachable colleagues, while living in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Preferred qualifications
Experience with the following would be beneficial:
· Java ecosystem
· JavaScript/Front End
· AWS ecosystem
· Devops tools and culture
Desired profile
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or 1+ years of relevant work experience
· Experience with an object oriented programming language