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Software Development Engineer, Amazon Audiences

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a set of audience segments to help advertisers plan media, gain insights about customer behaviors, create targeting strategies, and more. Our products form the core of our display advertising business. We ensure that billions of ads served are relevant to our customers. 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 looking for outstanding candidates to join us as full-time Software Development Engineers. Successful candidates will have solved complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, building solutions that scaled and performed. You will also have a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

You will work as part of an Agile team at our development centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, launching and growing new initiatives for Amazon's global websites. Your team will own the business, technology and operations, giving you the responsibility and authority to ensure success. You will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to software development across a variety of technologies. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7.

The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class websites and systems, delivering results, working on exciting and challenging projects.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Highly proficient in at least one of Java, C++, C#, Objective-C.
  • Familiar with one or more of JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python.
  • Algorithms, data-structures, efficiency, concurrency, performance optimization.
  • Object-oriented development and design patterns.
  • OS fundamentals and systems architecture.
  • Automated testing, refactoring, source control management, continuous integration.
  • Strong analytical and excellent problem solving skills.
  • Strong written and verbal English communications skills.
  • Highly pragmatic; we use technology to solve real-world problems expediently.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Processing big data using Spark
  • Machine learning and other statistical analysis
  • Cloud computing, large-scale and high-availability distributed architecture
  • Experience providing technical leadership
  • Experience of mentoring other engineers

Amazon’s mission is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. Amazon’s evolution from website to e-commerce and publishing partner to development platform is driven by the pioneering spirit that is part of the company’s DNA. The world’s brightest technology minds come to Amazon to research and develop new technologies…


Amazon’s mission is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. Amazon’s evolution from website to e-commerce and publishing partner to development platform is driven by the pioneering spirit that is part of the company’s DNA. The world’s brightest technology minds come to Amazon to research and develop new technologies that improve the lives of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Because that's what being Earth's most customer-centric company is all about, and it's still Day 1 at Amazon.

More than 230,000 employees worldwide keep the wheels turning at Amazon, with corporate offices, fulfilment centers and development centres across the globe. Amazon is looking for ambitious and enthusiastic graduates and interns across our roles in E-Commerce, Finance, Technology and Operations.

We are open to all degree disciplines and have hundreds of intern and graduate opportunities across the EU in: UK, Luxemburg, Spain, Italy and Germany.

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