Software Dev Engineer II, Audio + Podcast Ads

Amazon • New York, NY

6h • $158,100 - $213,800 • Onsite

About The Position

The Audio + Podcast Advertising program supports the growth of Amazon Music Free, Wondery, ART19, Twitch, and Alexa. We started our Audio advertising program in 2021 with a focus on Streaming Audio and Podcasts. Our vision is to build a world class audio advertising program and deliver more than $1B in revenue by 2030. We're building a core engineering team in New York to support all new Audio + Podcast Advertising programs. We're looking for passionate, team-oriented, and self-driven software builders to design and develop delightful user experiences for audio advertisers, publishers and listeners. This is a unique opportunity and time to get in early and deliver significant portions of the technical roadmap.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces (at the team level).
• Think in terms of architecture, not just code. Proactively work to improve the consistency and integration between your team’s software and any related software (owned by other teams).
• Take the lead in identifying and solving web app/architecture deficiencies or areas where your team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams.
• Help your team deliver higher quality software faster (or fail faster to get to the right solution).
• Communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customer.
• Harmonize discordant views and lead the resolution of contentious issues (build consensus).
• Lead design reviews for your team and actively participate in design reviews of related software or other team software at your location.
• Ensure your code, design, and implementation decisions set a great example to others and demonstrate best practices.
• Provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome.
• Actively participate in the hiring process as well as mentor others.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level