Software Development Engineer, ADSP (Advertising)

Amazon; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre (Scotland) Limited in Edinburgh is seeking a software engineer to join the Targeting organization to build privacy-safe ad solutions that are policy-compliant and scalable.

You will own end-to-end customer experiences, contribute to product direction, and design APIs, services, data models, and user interfaces across multiple technologies to make ads more relevant for shoppers and advertisers.

Qualifications

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.

Responsibilities

• You will work as part of an Agile team at our development centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, launching and growing new initiatives for Amazon's global websites.
• Your team will own the business, technology and operations, giving you the responsibility and authority to ensure success.
• You will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to software development across a variety of technologies.
• Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7.

Skills

Architecture and design

Java / C++ / C# (OO)

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Job ID: 10493846 | Amazon Development Centre (Scotland) Limited

As a software engineer in the Targeting organization, you'll be at the forefront of building privacy-safe solutions that make ads more relevant for shoppers and more effective for advertisers. We're building new functionality that simplifies how advertisers set up campaigns, in a policy and regulatory compliant way. You'll own the end-to-end customer experience, contributing to product direction while building the APIs, services, data models, and user interfaces that bring it to life.

Key job responsibilities

• You will work as part of an Agile team at our development centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, launching and growing new initiatives for Amazon's global websites.
• Your team will own the business, technology and operations, giving you the responsibility and authority to ensure success.
• You will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to software development across a variety of technologies.
• Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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