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Amazon Software Development Manager, Amazon Ads (ADSP) in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Description
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and the Demand Products team owns features that form the core of our display advertising business. We ensure that billions of ads served are relevant to our customers by enabling advertisers and agencies to connect with the right customers at the right time with the right products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
We are looking for outstanding candidates to join us as full-time Software Development Managers. Successful candidates will have led teams that solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, building solutions that scaled and performed. You will also have a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
You will lead an Agile team at our development centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, launching and growing new initiatives for Amazon's global websites. Your team will own the business, technology and operations, giving you the responsibility and authority to ensure success. You will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to software development across a variety of technologies. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7.
The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class websites and systems, delivering results, working on exciting and challenging projects.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Edinburgh, MLN, GBR | London, GBR
Basic Qualifications
Experience working directly within engineering teams
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
Experience analyzing business and operational metrics.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Computer Science degree or postgraduate study. In lieu of degree, relevant skills and equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
Experience in the digital advertising or marketing space
Familiarity with the technical aspects of digital / display advertising
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