DESCRIPTION

Creative Building & Optimization is looking for full stack engineers to help us define and build the next generation services to fuel the future growth of Amazon’s ad solutions. You'll play a critical role in the design and implementation of a strategic product for advertisers to manage their ad creatives, with direct and immediate impact on millions of customers every day!

What is Amazon Advertising?

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of devices (Kindles, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Alexa, mobile, Twitch, and more). We supports rich set of creative formats. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do.

What does the Creative Management team do?

We own the core services powering the creative management within Amazon Advertising. These services allow advertisers to generate the ad creatives from the rich set of product offerings via UI, API and bulk sheet (e.g. 100+ product offerings, 2K+ new creatives/day). We are continuously adding new features and investing to delight our customers.

What is the Creative Management team looking for?

We are looking for motivated software engineers to build medium to large distributed services which will impact customers and clients positively. You should be enthusiastic about helping in defining our products, shaping ambiguous business goals into working software solutions. You should be comfortable taking initiative and working across teams in a relatively unstructured environment. You have well-honed, insightful architectural design instincts, and enjoy building simple and elegant systems that will scale to support millions of users. Passion for the customer and their experience with our products is a key requirement for you. As an engineer, you enjoy working on MVP products, innovating on behalf of the customer, and building systems that will form the foundation of this highly strategic new businesses.

Why should I join your team?

Help us in exploring new ideas, technology and Amazon products with the goal of expanding our advertising products for our customers and advertisers. You’ll lead design and implementation, and deliver product that impact millions of customers and shoppers. You’ll get full support from team for your success - Senior SDEs for your design decision, PM, TPM and SDM for project management, and other SDEs in the team for your day-to-day work.


Key job responsibilities
1. Partner with product owners and other teams to define the new features to delight customers
2. Design and implement software with Amazon Web Services
3. Influence team process for better efficiency and higher velocity

A day in the life
1. Write a design doc for new features
2. Attend design reviews to provide feedback to your teammates and other teams
3. Write code (e.g. Java, JavaScript, TypeScript) to implement features and automated tests
4. Respond to feedback on your code review requests and provide feedback on code reviews requests from others
5. Coordinate and support other teams (upstream and downstream)

About the team
We work hard to deliver the critical programs to delight customers
We are exemplars of operational excellence.
We are parents, athletes, musicians and artists outside of work and we like to have fun!