Software Development Manager - Ad Platform

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Software Development Manager - Scaled Multi Channel Advertising – Sponsored Display

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class Advertising business where we run relevant display ads on key placements across our Retail website (e.g. amazon.com), Retail Mobile Shopping Apps, Devices (e.g. Kindle, Fire Tablet, Fire TV, Echo, etc), Third Party websites (e.g. nytimes.com) and Third Party Mobile Apps. The Multi-Channel Advertising team is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the future growth of Amazon's ad solutions, by providing self-service display advertising capabilities to 200K+ supplier-brands (vendors and seller-brands). This is a chance to be in on a huge opportunity as we put an Amazon twist into online advertising.

The team is responsible for several backend services that will power the overall advertising experience and integrations. This includes working on a greenfield project and building low latency and highly available distributed services, scaling systems as we onboard new users, building APIs for programmatic integrations.

About you:
You want to work on projects where you are implementing solutions to real problems that require creative solutions and deep understanding of the problem space. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better and often disruptive solutions. You know how to work cross-functionally to create alignment and deliver results. You're a thought leader, but you don't just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by going and building the solution. You want to create value and impact the direction of entire industries.

This role will involve driving products impacting many areas of our business. The individual in this role will have responsibility through the full product life cycle, from product strategy, prioritization and development to adoption and iteration with global sales and account management teams. You will directly manage engineering, product management, and client support teams and will build the next generation of Amazon's display ad serving systems.This role requires a deep technical person that can work at this scale but also interface with business teams and ensure our platform meets the needs of our customers.

Key Responsibilities:
- End to end ownership of the shared frameworks driving the display advertising experience
- Management and oversight of a 6 person software engineering team with scope for expansion
- Develop and execute project plans and delivery commitments; manage the day-to-day activities of engineering teams within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach. Be a hands-on technical leader and contributor
- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Here are some things we'd like to see in every candidate:
· A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
· 3+ years of experience managing software development teams
· 8+ years of software development experience, including C++ or Java