Sr. Software Development Engineer, Rewarded Ads

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
30+ days ago