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Careers at FillZ

Current Postings:

Job Title: Experienced Software Engineer

Do you want to use your software skills where they will have a real impact on the business's bottom line and the performance of a global online marketplace?

Fillz.com, wholly owned by AbeBooks.com – a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. – is looking for an experienced engineer with a strong sense of ownership, customer focus and a passion for designing clean solutions to complex problems. If you are excited about the prospect of leveraging technology to address the technical and analytical challenges of running a cloud-based inventory management system supporting hundreds of sellers, numerous marketplaces, and processing millions of transactions per day, we'd like to meet you.

This position is based at our headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

As a member of our development team you will help design and evolve Fillz.com to support a new level of scalability and customer growth. You will share ownership for the design and development of all components of a modern web-based services platform: from seller registration and inventory management, through pricing and payment processing, to cloud-based deployment and operations. The diversity of these responsibilities ensures that this position offers a broad and exciting range of technical challenges and opportunities.

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:

  • 3+ years experience developing in multiple OO languages, with a solid understanding of OOD
  • BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Solid experience testing complex systems and a passion for producing high-quality code
  • Solid background in algorithms and data structures
  • Understanding of database systems, both SQL and NoSQL
  • Familiar with development and administration in a Linux (or Unix) environment
  • Able to learn quickly and dive deeply to diagnose the root cause of problems

The following would be beneficial:

  • Experience developing in Scala (or a background in Java and a willingness to learn)
  • Experience with dynamic languages, such as Perl or Python
  • Experience developing high-performance, highly available and scalable web-services
  • Web development experience, including JavaScript, CSS, HTML
  • Working knowledge of configuration tools such as Chef, Puppet or Fabric
  • Experience with AWS, including EC2, SQS, SimpleDB, Beanstalk and CloudWatch
  • Exposure to Agile practices and methodologies such as XP or Scrum

FillZ Inc. provides competitive salaries and great benefits. If you enjoy constantly broadening your technical skills, building software that affects users around the world, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity and product innovation, please e-mail an application letter with detailed resume, including references, to hr@abebooks.com and quote "Experienced Software Engineer (Fillz)" in the Subject line of your email. Or visit www.abebooks.com/careers to apply online.

We appreciate your interest in FillZ!