Software Dev Engineer, Search Marketing Tech

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Job summary
Want to build Internet’s largest Search Engine Marketing and Optimization (SEO) systems worldwide? Come join us on the Amazon Search Marketing Tech team in Consumer Engagement. We are looking for engineers to build best-in-class digital marketing optimization systems that improves Amazon’s organic search discoverability on largest search engines like Google and Bing. Search Marketing is an innovative growing space that drives a large portion of Amazon’s business, and represents a unique opportunity to drive impact on the company’s bottom line.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop automated services, Big Data distributed applications, perform data mining/ML data modeling, work with data scientists and build customer-facing experiences in a fast paced environment. You will be working closely with the business partners, software development engineers, UI/UX designers and Product Managers to build Platform agnostic customer experiences, services, tools that are easy to understand and improve the Landing Page Experience for Amazon Customers. If you want to deliver high quality releases for state-of-the-art applications, Search Marketing Tech is the place for you. You’ll be well supported with by a group with deep technical chops, including senior and principal engineers.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures (both on engineering and product), and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on interests and what will help you to develop into a better-rounded engineer and take more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities

• Highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where problems are open-ended.
• Enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top.
• Work closely with senior engineers, UX designers and product managers to develop friendly UI experiences.
• Develop/maintain operational rigor for the rigor of a fast-growing Amazon Search stack.
• Take user-facing features from design to implementation, coding both the UI and backend functionality.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• You will have strong support to learn and share new technologies and skills.

A day in the life
Every day you will be working on backend NAWS based services and big data platforms like EMR, AWS Glue, Step Functions, AWS Batch, CDK, Fargate and use modern JavaScript frameworks like ReactNative. You will work with a team of smart engineers to build large-scale, distributed systems and build solutions that will help customers to find what they’re looking for in the most scalable ways. You will also be working on the operational excellence of the services owned by your team, including continuously improving the performance of applications. You will be a customer advocate and contribute towards ensuring a great customer experience for our product. You’ll work full-stack with primarily focus on middle ware and backend services. Given the scale and the complexity of Amazon’s Retail website platform and architecture, our problem space is truly unique and challenging. There is a large R&D component to our work, and strong engineering skills together with sound business understanding and an appetite for innovation are highly valued.

About the team
The team is responsible for a number of business-critical systems that generates, target, measures and optimizes hundreds of millions of search engine ad placements and organic search listings (SERPs). We bring prospective customers who start their shopping journeys on search engines to Amazon through our ML-driven software and systems. We apply best-in-class digital marketing optimization techniques like search engine optimization (SEO), landing page optimization (LPO) and content optimization to process and optimize billions of webpages, images, videos and content snippets to improve Amazon’s organic discoverability. We build keyword management and landing page experimentation systems that maximize returns through discovery of new keywords and products, landing page targeting efficiency and customer experience improvement opportunities. Cutting edge technology and algorithms including data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning are the core of our business.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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

• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with software teams to define, prototype, and implement great customer experiences.
• Understanding of common design patterns and ability to identify and mitigate design risks early in the development process.
• Attuned design sense so can collaborate with UX designers and hold a high bar with SDE’s.
• Experience with AWS Services (S3, Dynamo DB, Kinesis, EC2, Pinpoint, EMR, Step Functions, Fargate, CDK, AWS Glue, etc.).
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• Able to learn large scale complex systems quickly.
• Knowledge of engineering and operational excellence 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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.