Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Job summary
The Brand Advertising and Shopping Experience (BASE) team's vision is to be Earth's most customer-centric brand advertising start-up. Amazon is the world's best place for shoppers to search and buy products online, and we will make brands a first-class entity in the shopping experience. We will do this with relentless focus and invention on behalf of customers.

For shoppers, BASE provides a natural path to discover brands and engage with new products from brands they already love. For brands, BASE offers relationship building with their customers: first with discovery, then increased engagement, and ultimately brand loyalty. As we are able to assist brands in telling their story and provide value to customers with every interaction, we will drive brand growth, which will lead to accretive shopper and advertiser spend. This is an opportunity to come in at the ground floor for what is becoming a core part of the overall Amazon business strategy.

The Sponsored Brands API team offers a versatile environment, with a wide variety of challenges. We focus on helping advertisers by offering APIs that unlock impactful workflows to help advertisers achieve their goals. We are passionate about building scalable, well-designed software services, and strive to constantly improve our technical foundation and user experience. As an engineer within us, you will have a direct impact on your customers by making it easy and efficient for these suppliers to advertise their brands and products, increase sales and improve the Amazon shopper experience.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• A proven track record of making good technical judgement.
• Excellent problem solving skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience with low latency, high throughput Java Services.
• Proven experience working with Cloud / Amazon Web Services (AWS) products.
• General awesomeness in software engineering.
• Bonus points: Familiarity with the online advertising or e-commerce industry.
• Success with agile, continuous integration and deployment practices.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.