Senior Software Development Engineer, Creative Advertiser Experiences

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a software engineering leader in Seattle, WA to drive multi-engineer initiatives from strategy through deployment and operations.

You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and review code while applying GenAI to improve reliability and accelerate delivery across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of systems.
• Experience as a mentor or tech lead on an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and delivery of multi-engineer software projects across the full development lifecycle.
• Own architectural direction by evaluating tradeoffs in scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Write high-quality, well-structured code and conduct thorough code reviews.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Mentor/tech lead

Programming experience

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Key job responsibilities

• - Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of multi-engineer software projects spanning the full development lifecycle, from defining technical strategy through deployment and operational excellence.
• - Own your team's architectural direction by evaluating tradeoffs across scalability, performance, security, and maintainability, and influence technical decisions in dependent systems you do not directly control.
• - Write high-quality, well-organized code that serves as a model for the team, and conduct thorough code reviews to ensure consistency, clarity, and adherence to best practices.
• - Mentor and coach engineers on your team, providing technical guidance and career development support while building an inclusive environment where all voices contribute to decision-making.
• - Identify opportunities via genAI to simplify existing systems, reduce technical debt, and adopt new technologies or design patterns that improve reliability and accelerate delivery across your team and partner teams.

About the team

Our team delivers creative experiences that help advertisers achieve better campaign outcomes, while improving publisher long-term monetization. We obsess over TV and display to support brand advertising across Amazon 1P and 3P supply, for all demand programs. Our vision is to help advertisers create personalized, engaging ad experiences with minimal effort. We do this by augmenting and optimizing advertiser provide inputs, to deliver creative experiences tailored to the shopper and publisher context. We leverage GenAI to supplement or enhance creative assets on behalf of advertisers, as well as detect and resolve creative defects. We measure success by advertiser adoption, impression coverage, and performance of our creative solutions.

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually