Software Dev Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

What's the career opportunity?

As a software engineer on the Ads team, you will have to opportunity to design and develop projects that has large impact to several thousands of advertisers and several million shoppers and have a significant impact to the Amazon bottomline. Greenfield development and challenging problems combined with huge potential for impact create limitless growth opportunities.

What do you own?

As a technical owner at Amazon, you will be responsible for contributing to or leading the design of our ad systems. You will contribute substantially to new architectures to improve our scale and performance. You will drive the encapsulation of existing functionality behind discrete services which form a part of our larger company-wide service oriented architecture. You will also lead the proactive identification of common problem spaces across your team and ensure we build single, best-in-class solutions to meet common needs without undue restriction on the agility of individual ad programs. You will help drive the direction and overall development of a world class technology organization.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related technical discipline
· Experience with object-oriented design skills and common design paradigms
· Coding skills (Java or C/C++ on a UNIX or Linux platform)
· Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and databases.
· Experience writing unit and system level tests using dependency injection frameworks and object mocking