Software Development Engineer - II, Sales Technology, Amazon Advertising

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of e-Commerce and Advertising, offering a range of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers discover and shop for anything they want to buy. Advertising is an extension of the shopping experience and as consumers watch more video than ever, a viewing revolution is underway in how people consume video and connect with brands.

The Amazon Advertising business is growing at a fast pace and this team's mission is to apply technology to accelerate that growth through best-in-class software engineering, data engineering, and business intelligence. We are Sales Technology division within Global Sales organization and our mission is to deliver best-in-class software products and solutions to improve Amazon Advertising Sales' effectiveness worldwide

We are building sales enablement products for Amazon Advertising front line sales team. We want to ensure that the sales team has all the information about the customer and their potential to up-sell at their fingertips and they are not wasting time in inefficiencies. Specifically, this team's charter is responsible for building a platform that manages millions of dollars in commercial agreements with advertisers, Ad agencies.

We are at the intersection of the finance, compensation, sales related use cases and and have a direct impact on the revenue generated for the Amazon Advertising business. We are also embracing AI-first development approach to harness the effectiveness of AI and extending the same power to our customers by working closely with our science and AI partner teams.

The team is looking for motivated, thoughtful self-starters who can contribute right away to the design and development of these new products and who can partner closely with Sales teams to deliver products that truly move the needle for innovation.

A qualified candidate for this role enjoys working with end users, developing customer-focused UX, workflows and services, and solving business problems with leveraging AI and extensible software solutions. Engineers on this team can turn large data sets and disparate systems into actionable, insight-driven products that can help Sales teams serve some of the world's best known brands as well as small businesses selling products on Amazon

If you are interested in being part of Amazon Advertising and building services that allow Advertising to reach its innovative and ambitious goals, then we look forward to connecting with you.


Key job responsibilities
Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes and transform them into exciting experiences.

Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.

Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.

Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.

Mentor your team members to promote engineering excellence

Learn AI technologies, applications through practice

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be designing and developing automated solutions that help guarantee the software quality across a wide range of devices and web. You will be working on tools and infrastructure challenges involving big data and large scale back-end web services, all with the goal of delivering seamless experience to the customer.

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