Are you interested in building the technology behind bespoke ad experiences hosted across Amazon’s site, mobile app, and Fire TV for the world's largest brands?
We are the engineering team behind Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon's award winning advertising team. You can learn more about what Brand Innovation Lab does here: https://advertising.amazon.com/creative-solutions/services/brand-innovation-lab
Our mission is to improve the efficiency and capabilities of how we build and operate our advertising campaigns. We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer (II) to join our team based in New York.
In this role you would be expected to have responsibility for the full technical stack our team owns and operates.
Key job responsibilities
- Improve core developer tooling, such as our analytics stack and UI libraries
- Unlock new capabilities by integrating with 1P and 3P APIs
- Improve the reliability of our services, by improving monitoring and CI/CD pipelines
- Design new solutions to automate away repetitive tasks from the business
- Evolve the architecture of our existing systems to handle new business requirements
- Work across the technical stack, writing infrastructure as code, updating services and UI frameworks
- Take part in our team’s on-call, which has a very low ticket load
A day in the life
- Attend or run the team's daily stand-up meeting following the Kanban methodology
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
- Engage in code reviews, provide feedback and ensure code quality
- Drive and evaluate architectural decisions that shape the team's software, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Proactively engage with business stakeholders, product managers, and creatives to understand requirements, ideate innovative solutions, and align technical implementations with strategic goals.
- Contribute to the team's on-call rotation, resolving issues as they arise.
About the team
Our vision is to enable every developer and creative to do their best work. Not limited by capacity, but only by their imagination.
We're responsible for the platform that all of our dependent teams use, operate and develop on, where they build innovative advertising campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the world.
We use the following technologies:
- Java, Kotlin, Go
- React
- NodeJS
- API's (both developing and integrating)
- Json
- AWS
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Full-stack expertise: infrastructure as code, microservices, building web-based front-end interfaces.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
