Software Development Engineer, Advertising, Demand Tech: Forecasting and Guidance

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Toronto is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build and support data pipelines and indexing systems. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of software development experience and strong knowledge in micro-services architecture. This role involves working with large-scale systems to ensure efficiency and reliability for both internal and external users.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience in design patterns, reliability, and scaling of systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Build and support backend data pipelines, indexing systems, services, and APIs.
• Work with internal and external users to ensure system efficiency.

Skills

Software development

Data pipelines

Micro-services architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Programming languages

Job description

Description

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth.

The Team:

Forecasting team builds end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, machine learning models, large scale data structures and indexes, and data visualizations. We match supply (human eyeballs) and demand (advertisers interests) in thousands of audience targeting dimensions, and recommend optimal prices.

The Role:

The team is seeking an experienced engineer, who will build and support backend data pipelines, indexing systems, services and APIs. These systems are to be used by hundreds of internal and tens of thousands of self-serve external users. To be successful in this role, you will need to have a passion for backend, data and micro-services architecture and engineering.

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

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