Amazon Worldwide Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. The Advertiser Experience (AX) group owns the experience of the advertiser from the moment they decide to engage with our platform through the full lifecycle of self-service advertising management. This includes campaign building and management, advertising analytics and visualizations, and insightful recommendations. We are passionate about building scalable, well-designed software services, and strive to constantly improve our technical foundation and user experience.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to help us build the next generation of self-service advertising tools. We are seeking that rare combination of solid coding background, good design sense, an aptitude to apply technologies at scale, and a willingness to challenge the status quo and raise the bar on every service and feature we build.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about quality, consistency, maintainability, performance, security and all the other things that make great software great. They will own the design and implementation of major deliverables end-to-end. This position requires collaboration with fellow software engineers, UX designers, product managers, technical program managers, and partner teams, necessitating a comfort-level with ambiguity and a desire to create, iterate and improve.
Key job responsibilities
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Proficiency in at least one widely-used front end frameworks (e.g. react.js, next.js, etc)
- Proficiency working in middle tier (API, back-end-for-front-end, or similar) and backend
- Proficiency in at least one widely-used typed, OO language (e.g. Java, C#, Python)
- Strong problem solving and analytical abilities
- Deep knowledge and practice of software best practices for the full software development life-cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience mentoring other software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective and productive
- Strong advocacy of agile engineering practices
- Success with continuous integration and deployment practices
About the team
Advertising at Amazon is growing incredibly fast by providing efficient tools to drive sales for our vendors and sellers. These customers need tools that help them get the most from their advertising dollar in the least time. The Campaign Management team ensures Advertisers can easily use tools to launch their campaigns independently. We are looking for a pioneering and collaborative engineer to work in our unique, product-focused “2-pizza team.” You will sit side-by-side with product owners, contributing to the new ideas that will become your projects. You will build applications and that provide the right help in the right place at the right time. If you are a Software Development Engineer who is interested in being close to the business problems, wants to broaden your leadership skills, and are passionate about delivering world class user experiences, we would love to talk to you.
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, ON, Toronto - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually
