Software Development Engineer, Software Development Engineer- Content Creation

Description

Do you want to build software solutions in collaboration with art directors, UX designers, diverse marketing teams and deliver features that output beautifully designed messages to millions of Amazon customers? The Content Creation Team team supports a variety of businesses at Amazon with marketing systems that elevate the customer experience and deepen the trust in our brand. We build tools and capabilities that enable marketers to create in a self-service or automated way measurably effective, compelling customer experiences across Amazon's owned and operated channels. These include systems that:

- Define and standardize brand and marketing events styling and customer experience guardrails;
- Self-serve visual marketing assets;
- Administer marketing content elements or artefacts for reuse;
- Track, monitor and offer performance insights of various marketing vectors like message, content and visuals;
- Improve operational cycle time of design and marketing activities.
We leverage a mix of programming languages (Java, JavaScript, TypeScript), modern frameworks (Jersey, Guice, Hibernate, React, Angular) and AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3) to build web services and tools for internal marketing or partner technical teams.

We are looking for a software development engineer eager to work in a team of innovators and contribute to a suite of tools that power operations like visual design, marketing ideation, testing and measurement. You will be working in an Agile mode, frequently collaborating directly with product management and design to iterate at a fast pace and delight our end users.

Key job responsibilities

- Designing, developing and maintaining micro-services hosted in AWS;
- Adding new features to existing tools;
- Improving performance and operational costs;
- Researching solutions for technically ambiguous problems;
- Mentoring other engineers.
A day in the life

As part of the Content Creation Team, you will be architecting, developing and maintaining our products, frequently collaborating directly with product management and UX design to iterate at a fast pace and delight our end users. We leverage modern cloud technologies and build distributed and scalable APIs to automate and improve recommendations for marketing banners.

You will have the opportunity to lean advanced AWS features and apply Machine Learning on both the marketing creative and the customer profile with the end goal of improving our campaign gold star metric.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Good knowledge of the HTTP/HTTPS protocols and networking stack

Preferred qualifications

- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Basic qualifications

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.