Job Description

DESCRIPTION

[[We are also open to candidates in New York ]]

Interested in charting the course of multiple critical, large scale systems that help create delightful ad experiences for Amazon shoppers? We have an opportunity for you!

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to join our Sponsored Products - Supply team. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to deliver relevant ads on the Amazon website, based on shoppers\' intent, context and preferences. As the Software Development Manager on this team, you will be responsible for charting and executing the course of a highly critical, extremely large scale distributed system handling billions of requests. This is a high-impact role that requires strategic vision and big-picture thinking, but also strong execution, technical depth, analytical rigor and excellent communication. The team of highly skilled developers you lead will have an appreciable impact on the quality and speed of service, the satisfaction of our customers, and the bottom line of Amazon Advertising.

This person will have the responsibility to:
- Define and drive the multi-year vision for Amazon Advertising\'s core Data Ingestion Infrastructure.
- Drive project initiatives to deliver robust and scalable solutions toward this vision, incorporate in new technologies as appropriate.
- Work closely with Development Managers, Engineers and Technical Project Managers across the company to influence product development to support or enhance products.
- Build relationships with existing and potential internal customers to understand their requirements and demonstrate how products can add value to their business.
- Work with Project Managers to add new features to roadmaps, prioritize them, and facilitate delivery on requirements and functional specifications.
- Own, oversee, and delegate the design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and delivery of large-scale global software applications, systems, platforms, services or technologies.
- Build, manage, and develop world-class engineers and project managers, including hiring recommendations, and guide and mentor engineers and project managers within and outside of the team.
- Ensure high quality design reviews which meet business and architectural goals and drive critical feedback on architecture and design issues.
- Oversee resource allocation to ensure appropriate business and staff development goals are met.
- Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business with team, management chain and with customers

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Toronto, ON, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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.

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