Software Development Engineer II, Advertiser Growth Engine

Amazon • Toronto, ON

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About The Position

The Advertiser Growth Engine (AGE) team owns and builds services and applications across Amazon Advertising that make advertising across countries as easy as flipping on a switch. Our mission is to accelerate the path for millions of our Advertising clients in becoming global advertisers and brands. We are currently recruiting Mid-Level Software Engineers who enjoy solving technical challenges at a global scale, simplifying and eliminating complexity as well as demonstrating a high sense of ownership and the ability to drive solutions from inception to delivery. We have a strong culture of innovation, solving problems in creative ways and our track record of accomplishment’s speaks for itself. Over the past 2 years we have successfully: Built world-class text, video, and image localization services leveraging experienced human linguists and machine translation to produce high quality Advertising content. Leveraged ML and NLP to build a highly scalable service which intelligently routes translation content to human linguist by quality and SLA metrics. Our current and future goals include: Build agentic video, text, and image localization workflows to improve our customer's experience both on and off Ad Console. Build services to enable multi-marketplace advertisers to create their campaigns globally. This will help reduce advertiser friction. You will be joining a high-performing team at the core of the Amazon Ad’s ecosystem. You will be responsible for the entire development lifecycle, from feature ideation to deployment to operational excellence. The individual in this role will have responsibility through the full product life cycle, from product strategy, prioritization and development to adoption and iteration. We will be counting on you to have strong technical skills - you should be able to design and build high-availability, low-latency distributed systems that will service millions of users. You will be expected to mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of innovation and high standards in the team.

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
• 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

• Leading medium to high complexity projects.
• Collaborating with scientists to solve localization problems for advertisers.
• Mentoring junior engineers to ensure projects are delivered with high quality.
• Responsible for the entire development lifecycle, from feature ideation to deployment to operational excellence.
• Responsibility through the full product life cycle, from product strategy, prioritization and development to adoption and iteration.
• Design and build high-availability, low-latency distributed systems that will service millions of users.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of innovation and high standards in the team.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• paid time off
• other resources to improve health and well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree