Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products

This team manages the end-to-end lifecycle of Advertiser Account Management including Registration, Identity, granular access control and security. We are working on the next-generation Advertiser Registration and Account Management akin to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. The systems are pushing boundaries in terms of scale of storage, data processing and real-time propagation.

We build Tier-1 services to handle millions of requests per day, while maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements (high operational standards). Our team will develop distributed solutions with service oriented architecture to build high performance platforms (with both backend as well as frontend ownership) to service world's largest selection to millions of customers. Within this space, our team is looking for a talented, creative and passionate Software Development Manager to help us build, launch and grow the software at the core of the Multi-account experience. Our projects involve full-stack development - web UI, web services, data systems, and reporting that operate at massive scale and high reliability. You will get to have a direct impact on how customers create, browse, discover, and manage their multiple advertising accounts and user permissions and align them closest to their business structure globally.

In this role you will:
Build and manage a team of Software Engineers.
Foster career growth and a strong team culture.
Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach technical staff.
Interface with our external customers to understand requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress.
Own all operational metrics and support for your teams software.
Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver value to customers.
Help develop long-term development and business technology strategies.

If you're looking for a chance to build software with a team of top-notch developers, for a new business that promises to shake things up on behalf of all sorts of customers; if you want to learn and improve the core Amazon advertising systems and optimize their use for internal, external advertisers, integrators and agencies alike - come work with our great team of engineers, product managers, and UX designers. We are a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth business. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of the Amazon vision in the Advertising business.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent technical education and work experience.7+ years of experience leading a team of software engineers.
7+ years of hands-on software development engineering experience.
Technical expertise in distributed software design and development.
3+ years of managing a team of software engineers (direct reports).
Experience with Java, Scala, C, Python, JavaScript

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
5+ years of software development experience as a manager.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
A deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, and a track record of shipping software on time
Experience with scrum or Kanban methodology for agile software development.
Experience designing software architecture for scalability, reliability and performance.
A passion for people management and mentoring.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full SDLC including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
AWS Certifications.
Experience in partnering with product and program management teams.
Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development.