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Amazon Sr. Software Development Engineer, Rewarded Ads in Santa Monica, California
Description
The Rewarded Ads team is building a new and exciting product offering that enable advertisers to offer rewards to consumers when they shop on Amazon. This is an exciting direction in the Advertising world as it creates a win-win for both the advertisers and consumers. As a new, fast growing advertisement product, Rewarded Ads Team offers unique opportunity for innovation, growth, as well as start-up like environment.
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer passionate about leading development of scalable and maintainable software. As technical leader, you will collaborate with Product Manager, Software Development Managers, and Amazon Advertising teams on setting technical vision, design, implementation, delivery, and operations of various features within Rewarded Ads. This is a great opportunity to influence direction of technology development, engineering culture, and day to day practices. As Sr. Engineer, you'll guide and mentor the development team in so-called best software development practices and Amazon's day one culture, raising the bar for innovation, creativity, quality, and customer obsession.
Rewarded Ads is a quickly evolving product build on top of modern tech stack. We have high potential to identify opportunities for new ad products, experiment, incubate and scale the most successful ideas. Our products change the way advertisers interact with Amazon Advertising. We are just getting started and this is a great opportunity to get on the ground floor of what will be a high impact capability.
About the team
We are a young team with a culture of communication, transparency and collaboration and we’re energized by new team members. We are based in Southern California (Santa Monica and San Diego).
Why join us? We own engineering for the entire custom advertisement space. We offer a great opportunity to work on advertising/ e-commerce domain. We are part of Amazon Advertising which itself is rapidly growing. We are innovating on multiple new products. This opportunity provides the unique experience of developing business insights and using them to build products. You will also balance tech decisions and their business impact. As a SDE you will shape the tech roadmap for the product and grow with us. You will have ability to influence your team’s tech direction. We are low on high-severity ticket workload and expect you to build mechanisms to keep it that way.
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
Experience in Ads technology and product
Experience in building and integrating with high-scale services
Knowledge of software development methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in a developer role
Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.