Software Development Engineer

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of e-Commerce and Advertising, offering a range of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers discover and shop for anything they want to buy. Advertising is an extension of the shopping experience and as consumers watch more video than ever, a viewing revolution is underway in how people consume video and connect with brands.

The Amazon Advertising business is growing at a fast pace and this team s mission is to apply technology to accelerate that growth through best-in-class software engineering, data engineering, and business intelligence. We are part of the Sales Technology team within Global Sales Operations team is to deliver best-in-class products and data solutions to improve Amazon Advertising Sales team effectiveness worldwide. We are building sales enablement products for Amazon Advertising front line sales team. We want to ensure that the sales team has all the information about the customer and their potential to up-sell at their fingertips and they are not wasting time in inefficiencies. The team is looking for motivated, thoughtful self-starters who can contribute right away to the design and development of these new products and who can partner closely with Sales teams to deliver products that truly move the needle for innovation.

A qualified candidate for this role enjoys working with end users, developing customer-focused UX, workflows and web services, and solving business problems with extensible software solutions. Engineers on this team can turn large data sets and disparate systems into actionable, insight-driven products that can help Sales teams serve some of the world s best known brands as well as small businesses selling products on Amazon. If you are interested in being part of Amazon Advertising and building services that allow Advertising to reach its innovative and aggressive goals, then we look forward to connecting with you.

Youll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.

In this role, you will
- Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes and transform them into exciting experiences.
- Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.
- Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
- Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
- Mentor your team members to promote engineering excellence



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Job responsibilities

In this role, you will
Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes and transform them into exciting experiences.
Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.
Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
Mentor your team members to promote engineering excellence

A Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience;
5 + years of Software Development experience;
Experience designing highly interactive web applications with performance, scalability, accessibility, usability, design, and security in mind. If you dont have all of these, thats ok, but be excited about learning the few you dont know.
Familiar with building complex web applications using Javascript / AJAX, XHTML, CSS and knowledge of jQuery, Java, Struts, and other website technologies.
Experience designing Android Applications
Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform)
Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development
Knowledge of scripting languages a plus
Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and databases
Software development experience in building highly scalable applications
Excellent verbal and written communication skills - 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 5+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience