Sr. SW Dev Engineer/Tech Lead, Targeted On Package Advertising

Sr. SW Dev Engineer/Tech Lead, Targeted On Package Advertising

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Job summary
This is an opportunity to join a startup within Amazon to build a new product from the ground up. We're looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to envision, design and build an innovative and customer-centric way to present on-package Advertising and delight our customers at the enjoyable moments of receiving their deliveries.

As a Sr. Software Development Engineer, you will partner with Product Managers, Amazon Advertising teams, Fulfillment Center teams to design, implement and deliver end-to-end solutions for On Package Advertising. This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer to define and implement the technology direction for a young organization while remaining hands-on as a prolific software designer and coder. You will provide thought leadership, own technical vision and to lead and/or influence the design, implementation and delivery of end-to-end solutions. You will guide and mentor the development team, using your considerable experience to build an engineering culture of innovation, quality and customer obsession.

This is a great opportunity to be part of the team shaping a new Amazon business with big growth potential.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the technical vision for your team. You will collaborate with business and tech teams to ensure that team's tech roadmap supports the business direction.
• Use your problem-solving skills, collaborating with creative and technical teams, thinking-big and inventing and simplifying to solve advertising challenges.
• Design and build solutions that span the entire custom advertising stack; UX, API, audience segmentation/targeting, Ad serving and performance monitoring. Your solutions will enable delivery of innovative ad-products and experiences across wide range of devices and web.
• Deliver novel customer experiences by developing solutions which include AWS services and large scale back-end services.
• Leverage your technical ability, excellent organizational and communication skills to build and solve challenging and ambiguous problems. You'll use your ingenuity and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
• Provide guidance to multiple development teams and mentor SDEs in these team.
• Set a high quality bar, ensuring quality design reviews and robust engineering practices for automated testing, code coverage and full CI/CD pipelines.

A day in the life
As a Sr Dev Engineer/Tech Lead on this team, you will lead the software engineering vision, design and implementation for projects across all areas of this new automotive shopping initiative. You will you will design and develop solutions that power innovative ad products. You will work directly with creative, product management and program management to define requirements, advise the sequence of tech roadmaps and apply your technical expertise to solve difficult problems in a fast-paced environment. You'll design and build software and systems for novel customer experiences, AWS services, and large-scale back-end web services, all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.

About the team
This role is one of the first on a newly formed team with a vision to create a completely new customer experience for On Package Advertising. We're collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to create a seamless customer experience. It's a product that customers will love and that will see significant growth in the coming years.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• 3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C, or C# including object-oriented design
• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience building and operating Java Services, Databases, and customer facing APIs.
• Five years of progressively responsible work experience
• Experience in scaling and performance tuning of large systems
• Experience building and integrating-with high-scale services
• Experience with AWS products (S3, Lambda, DynamoDb, etc.)
• Knowledge of software development methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in a developer role
• Object-oriented and test-driven design and coding skills
• Experience in Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills

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