Software Development Engineer - Amazon Ads, Recommendation Experience, Amazon Ads

ITjobs.ca; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join their Amazon Ads team. The role involves designing and building full-stack solutions, collaborating with teams, and mentoring others while ensuring high-quality engineering practices. Candidates should have significant software development experience and a strong educational background in computer science.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build full-stack solutions.
• Mentor team members to promote engineering excellence.
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.

Skills

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Communication

Technical ability

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer - Amazon Ads, Recommendation Experience, Amazon Ads

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Description

Amazon Advertising seeks the world’s brightest and best technical engineers to drive next-generation solutions that enable advertisers to reach customers across our owned and operated sites, on other high-quality publisher sites across the web, and on millions of desktops, mobile, and connected TV devices. Our mission is to offer the world’s most customer-centric advertising. Amazon DSP (ADSP) is Amazon’s programmatic advertising product for campaign spanning Display, Video, and Audio across Amazon properties (e.g., Amazon.com, IMDb TV, Twitch, Fire TV, and Amazon Music) and tens of thousands of third-party (3P) websites and apps. We seek candidates who want to join a team focused on building large-scale systems that integrate across multiple sources to provide unique advertising products. These products give advertisers the controls and data necessary to improve the relevancy and performance of their ads.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and build full-stack solutions.
• Use your problem-solving skills, collaborating with creative and technical teams, thinking-big and inventing and simplifying to solve challenges.
• Deliver novel customer experiences by developing solutions.
• Collaborate with teams across Amazon to integrate and optimize existing ad products to take advantage of Amazon's scale and reach.
• Leverage your technical ability, excellent organizational and communication skills to build and solve challenging and ambiguous problems. You'll use your ingenuity and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
• Provide guidance to and mentor other SDEs in the team.
• Be responsible for high quality bar, ensuring quality design reviews and robust engineering practices for automated testing and code coverage.

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 impactful and exciting experiences.
• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the Recommendation Optimization (ROX) team and the larger FORGE organization.
• 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.

About The Team

The Recommendation Optimization Experience (ROX) team helps advertisers achieve their business goals by delivering insights and recommendations via Console and APIs that are personalized to the advertiser, easy to understand, contextually relevant, simple to adopt, and fully optimized to grow the advertiser’s business.

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
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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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