Amazon is hiring: Software Dev Engineer , Amazon Advertising in New York

Description

What is Amazon Advertising?

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of devices (Kindles, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Alexa, mobile, Twitch, and more). We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If youre interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, youve come to the right place.

What does Amazon Advertising, the hiring team, do? Amazon Advertising is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the growth of Amazons advertising business. We own multiple customer facing facets of Amazon Ad's, which allow brands of all sizes to buy advertising across Amazons ad network in a few clicks. Brands interact directly or through external Agencies/Integrators, through our website and/or programmatic APIs and get enterprise-grade access

What is the Amazon Advertising team looking for?

We need full stack developers with a range of skills from HTML5/Javascript/React on the UI to Java for service layer. The more of these skills you have the better. You should feel comfortable developing in both web browser-based UI and server environments.

Youll be responsible for owning, designing and delivering highly scalable systems that will be used by advertisers, agencies, and sellers on Amazon to build, manage and serve beautiful, innovative ads to highly targeted audiences. Our team works across Amazon to combine Desktop, Mobile, Kindle, Video, and Retail into our products. Were building a full-service, full-stack advertising platform.

If I were hired, what would I be working on?

With our team youll get the opportunity to own major deliverables building out our applications. Youll work with customers to scope, design, implement, test, and launch new features. Youll be able to enjoy innovation, simplify complex problems and tackle tough challenges. Our team is continuing to grow and we need to a reexamine our existing architecture and define a bold vision for the next phase of scaling and complexity. Were looking for you to help define and drive that vision.

Why should I join your team?

Be a part of a team that is rapidly adapting to an ever-changing digital advertising landscape. We have many new, exciting major projects on the horizon, across all parts of the tech stack, that you will play a key role in. We are constantly in touch with our customers to not only understand what they need today but predict where theyre going tomorrow and build software that can handle it all. Our customers have high expectations of Amazon and were ready for you to join us on the journey of exceeding those expectations and delivering products that customers love!

Impact and Career Growth:

- Have an opportunity to contribute across the full stack

- Build the next generation of Advertising platforms for Amazon

- Opportunity to grow and broaden your technical skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation

- Mentor new engineers that join our growing organization

We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

Key job responsibilities

- designing and developing software products that impact many areas of our business

- define requirements, create software designs, implement code to these specifications

- provide thorough unit and integration testing, and support products while deployed and used by our stakeholders

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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.