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Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a set of audience segments to help advertisers plan media, gain insights about customer behaviors, create targeting strategies, and more. Our teams strive to reinvent the way advertisers and agencies build brands and drive performance in their advertising. By using Amazon’s foundation in e-commerce, we help brands connect with the right customers through creative solutions and formats across screens and devices, and in the physical world.
Our products form the core of our display advertising business. We ensure that billions of ads served are relevant to our customers. 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 Senior Software Development Engineers. Successful candidates will have solved 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 work as part of 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. You will be part of a team whose systems meet excellent standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24×7.
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.
About The Team
The Audience Builder & Composition team sits at the heart of Amazon’s ad targeting offerings. We build APIs and self-service tools that are made available to advertisers to enable them to learn about their target customer, discover new prospective customers, and then use these insights to build an audience in real-time, on-demand. Our services are built using the latest AWS technologies, while leveraging advanced big data and machine learning techniques. We do all of this while building automated mechanisms to ensure the highest levels of privacy compliance, aligned to the first tenet of our program- safeguarding customer trust at all times. Software developers and applied scientists on the team work with product managers, and frequently, interact directly with advertisers and media agencies to understand their requirements, and then design solutions that meet and exceed the requirements.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
- Highly proficient in at least one of Java, C++, C#, Objective-C.
- Familiar with one or more of JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python.
- Experience with large-scale distributed data processing and analytics (Spark, EMR, Elasticsearch)
- Architecture and design of high-availability distributed architectures at scale
- Highly pragmatic; we use technology to solve real-world problems expediently.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal English communications skills.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT – 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).
Company – Amazon Dev Centre(Scotland)Ltd
Job ID: A2225591
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