Compensation

Competitive

Contract type

Full time

Technologies & frameworks

HTML & CSS
JavaScript
React
Node.js

Benefits & perks

401k
Product impact
Health care contributions
Promote from within
Committed to a diverse team
Performance bonus
Training
Stock options
Tech socials
Maternity & paternity leave

We help grow businesses and brands of all sizes

Role overview

DESCRIPTION:

Self Service Performance Advertising provides the platform for one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. The Advertiser Experience group owns the experience of the advertiser from the moment they decide to engage with our platform right through the full lifecycle of self-service advertising management. This includes B2B data management tools (UI, API and offline processing), performance visualizations, and insightful recommendations. We are passionate about building scalable, well-designed software, and strive to constantly improve our technical foundation and user experience. As an engineer within Advertiser Experience, you’ll have a direct impact on your customers by making it easy and efficient for these suppliers to advertise their brands and products, increase sales and improve the Amazon shopper experience.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help us build the next generation of intelligent self-service advertising tools. We are seeking that rare combination of solid coding background, good design sense, an aptitude to apply cutting edge 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience with object-oriented design
2+ years of professional non-internship experience with front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related discipline; or equivalent experience (based on 3 years of relevant work experience for every 1 year of education)
3+ years professional experience in large-scale front-end software development
Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem solving
Experience developing rich applications with HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Experience developing high performance, low latency applications in Java
Experience in an agile software development methodology

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Ability to convert a design document into a working service with no loss in fidelity
Domain expertise in ReactJS, NodeJs or a modern front end framework
Advanced CSS skills
Experience influencing professional software engineering practices for shipping and supporting great software services
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
Familiarity with the online advertising or e-commerce industry
General awesomeness in software engineering and life
Experience developing front-end software, with deep experience in one or more relevant front-end frameworks (React, Webcomponents, etc.)

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

Location

New York is the most populous city in the US with more than 8 million inhabitants. A lot of immigrants from over 180 countries live in the City. Travelers are usually attracted to its cosmopolitanism and energy. New York consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island. New York is also well-known for its cultural heritage Empire State Building, Central Park and Statue of Liberty. The City is a center for fashion, media, culture, research and a booming tech scene.

The tech scene in New York has changed a lot in recent years. A lot of the initial excitement has worn off and settled into a stable trend of successful businesses. In both 2014 and 2015, a New York City tech company went public with a valuation of over $1 billion. It is now #2 startup ecosystem in the world, with startups raising $11.5 billion in venture capital in 2017. NYC is also the HQ of choice for Spotify, Consensys and WeWork.

Did you know...

New York City’s Federal Reserve Bank holds $90 billion in gold
60M tourists visited NYC in 2016
More than 800 languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world; 4 in 10 households speak a language other than English

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Amazon Advertising helps grow businesses and brands of all sizes. We do this by giving them ad solutions and audience insights so they can create relevant campaigns that produce measurable results.