Software Development Engineer, ADSP: Guidance

Amazon Development Centre (Scotland) Limited; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company in Edinburgh is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join their team focused on improving advertising solutions. The role requires experience in software development and modern programming languages, with a strong emphasis on finding effective solutions to complex problems. Ideal candidates will have strong teamwork and communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience contributing to architecture and design of systems.
• Professional software development experience required.
• Experience programming in at least one modern language.

Responsibilities

• Involved in business analysis and technical design.
• Engage in software development across various technologies.
• Ensure systems operate at high standards of performance.

Skills

Software engineering best practices

Problem-solving

Teamwork and communication

Customer experience focus

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Java

C++

C#

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Software Development Engineer, ADSP: Guidance, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job Description:

How can Amazon improve the advertising experience for customers around the world? How can we help advertisers and customers find each other in a meaningful way? Amazon Advertising creates and transforms the connection between retailers/service providers and customers. Our teams strive to reinvent the way advertisers and agencies build brands and drive performance in their advertising. By using Amazon's foundation in e-commerce, we help brands connect with the right customers through creative solutions and formats across screens and devices, and in the physical world.

Amazon Advertising seeks a Software Development Engineer to join the ADSP Guidance engineering team in Edinburgh. We make recommendation products that fuel our customer's advertising campaign workflows and performance. You will work as a full time Software Development Engineer at our development centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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.

Our ideal candidate is an experienced engineer who has a track-record of solving complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices and building solutions that have scaled and performed. You will also have a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. The position offers exceptional opportunities to grow your technical and non-technical skills.

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
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing