Job Description

DESCRIPTION

The Custom Advertising team builds innovative advertising experiences that delight customers and advertisers worldwide. These range from using AR to showcase advertisers products, to leveling-up the car-buying experience with hyper-realistic vehicle configurators and even delivering a full sized T-Rex in an Amazon box with a little help from Alexa (try: Ask Jurassic World whats in the box?). Our business is growing rapidly, and weve only just begun to scratch the surface!

The Custom Advertising Engineering team is looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to help us build custom ad products and campaigns on multiple platforms across devices and the web. This is an opportunity to join and help shape a startup within Amazon Advertising that thinks big and moves fast without fear of failure.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will design and develop solutions that help enable delivery of innovative ad products and experiences across a wide range of devices and web. You will be working on tools and infrastructure challenges involving novel customer experiences, big data and large-scale back-end web services, all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.

A successful candidate will have an interest in developing front-end, middle-tier, back-end and automation solutions for consumer-facing products. Candidates will leverage their strong technical ability, excellent organizational skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C including object-oriented design
1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Full-stack experience, including front-end, middle-tier and services
Experience building client side applications using JavaScript, CSS and HTML
Experience building and integrating-with high-scale services
Experience with AWS products (S3, Lambda, DynamoDb, etc.)
Experience with hardware engineering and hardware/software solutions for internet of things devices
Knowledge of software development methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in an developer role
Object-oriented and test-driven design and coding skills
Coding experience with automated frameworks, tools and services
Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
Ability to think abstractly and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems
Experience in Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills

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