Software Development Engineer -II, Amazon - Ads Sales Tech

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team at a leading global company where you'll leverage your software engineering skills to create impactful solutions. This role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge technology in a fast-paced environment, focusing on building sales enablement products that empower sales teams. You'll be responsible for collaborating with design teams, optimizing systems for performance, and mentoring fellow engineers. If you're passionate about developing customer-focused solutions and want to be part of a culture that values diversity and inclusion, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with design patterns and system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design teams to prototype and develop features.
• Mentor team members and promote engineering excellence.

Skills

Software Development

Programming Languages

Design Patterns

Performance Optimization

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Testing Frameworks

Job description

Software Development Engineer -II, Amazon - Ads Sales Tech

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of e-Commerce and Advertising, offering a range of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers discover and shop for anything they want to buy. Advertising is an extension of the shopping experience and as consumers watch more video than ever, a viewing revolution is underway in how people consume video and connect with brands.

The Amazon Advertising business is growing at a fast pace and this team’s mission is to apply technology to accelerate that growth through best-in-class software engineering, data engineering, and business intelligence. We are part of the Sales Technology team within Global Sales Operations team is to deliver best-in-class products and data solutions to improve Amazon Advertising Sales team effectiveness worldwide. We are building sales enablement products for Amazon Advertising front line sales team. We want to ensure that the sales team has all the information about the customer and their potential to up-sell at their fingertips and they are not wasting time in inefficiencies. The team is looking for motivated, thoughtful self-starters who can contribute right away to the design and development of these new products and who can partner closely with Sales teams to deliver products that truly move the needle for innovation.

A qualified candidate for this role enjoys working with end users, developing customer-focused UX, workflows and web services, and solving business problems with extensible software solutions. Engineers on this team can turn large data sets and disparate systems into actionable, insight-driven products that can help Sales teams serve some of the world’s best known brands as well as small businesses selling products on Amazon. If you are interested in being part of Amazon Advertising and building services that allow Advertising to reach its innovative and aggressive goals, then we look forward to connecting with you.

You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.

Job Responsibilities

In this role, you will…

1. Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes and transform them into exciting experiences.
2. Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.
3. Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
4. Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
5. Mentor your team members to promote engineering excellence.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 5+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

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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Posted: February 18, 2025

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