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Description

Calling all inventors! We are looking for high caliber Software Development Engineers to start a new advertising program with strategic significance and high exposure. In this initiative we will tackle some of the most exciting problems in ad tech, software architecture design, and building highly scalable services.

Performance Advertising’s vision is to enable advertisers of all sizes with self-service products to build their brand and business, delivering sophisticated automation for novices and powerful controls for expert users. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creative formats where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class, highly performant advertising solutions.

Key job responsibilities

As a software engineer in performance advertising, you will:

• Own the design and delivery of software services and website stacks that entail engaging creatives, cross-screen placements, targeting, optimization, relevancy and advertiser experiences.

• Build brand new distributed software applications using cloud services and amazon proprietary technologies to deliver these unique customer and advertiser experiences.

• Interface with teams across Amazon; discovery, retail category, traffic generation, vendor management and analytics among many others. This is a great opportunity to learn many facets of advertising and retail, and understand how they come together, equipping you with the skills to grow your career.

• Experiment, innovate and deliver in a fast, agile and reliable manner with high quality and low technical debt. You should be passionate about building, improving and championing the product and a strong sense of ownership is a must.

• Work with product managers, software development managers, software development engineers, and quality assurance engineers to raise the bar on product and technical quality.

Location is flexible for consideration in Toronto, Arlington, New York City and Seattle

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Toronto, ON, CAN

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

• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

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, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.