Sr. Software Development Engineer, Ads Marketing

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the technology sector is seeking a motivated Senior Software Development Engineer to join their AGT team in Toronto. The role involves designing scalable services for advertisers while providing technical leadership and mentoring to team members. Candidates should have substantial experience in software development and architecture, with a strong bias for action in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in leading design or architecture of systems.
• Mentorship experience in an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable distributed services.
• Mentor team members and enhance their productivity.
• Innovate solutions for software and infrastructure challenges.

Skills

Software Development

Technical Leadership

Time Management

Mentoring

Software Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

The Advertiser Growth Tech (AGT) team is looking for a motivated and experienced Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and maintain multiple highly scalable distributed services for Amazon advertisers.

AGTS is an engineering team with the mission to deliver relevant and personalized content, training, and advertising insights to advertisers worldwide in a scalable and automated fashion. Our products help grow the number of Amazon Ads advertisers as well as the advertisers' understanding and usage of Amazon Ads products. We are part of the Marketing organization within Advertising, one of the fastest-growing and most strategic parts of Amazon. Advertiser success is core to Amazon's growth, as it helps our suppliers drive awareness, consideration, and purchase of their products by hundreds of millions of consumers around the world, and generates revenue which helps us lower prices and invest in improvements to our customer experience. We are a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.

AGT is building a marketing tech platform that includes the digital storefront for advertising, ads.amazon.com (A20M), an Advertiser Data Platform, Marketer Management Tools, an Automatic Content Recommendation Engine, Seller / Vendor Central Advertiser Registration, and the Amazon Ads Academy. As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the team, you will own and influence team software architecture, development, testing, and delivery of complex features for these platforms. You will drive integration with various external applications. You will also get to work on new engineering and science challenges for Brand Readiness, Email Ranking, Organic High Value Actions, Brand Growth Insights, Next-Best-Actions, Content Relevance, and Social Media Addressability. You will work closely with product managers to learn the advertising business and develop solutions that make a large impact on our advertisers.

Key job responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will :

• Innovate and solve software engineering and infrastructure engineering challenges at a massive scale.
• Build the design and implementation of several internal services as well as integration strategies for external services.
• Partner closely with our security and privacy teams to produce innovative and secure solutions.
• Have excellent time management skills along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty.
• Exert technical influence over your team members, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder, and operator.
• Assist in the career development of others by actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ 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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