Software Development Manager, Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC)

Software Development Manager, Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC)

Do you enjoy leading teams of engineers working on high-scale, complex, international solutions? Do you enjoy end-to-end responsibility, working on business ideas as well as technology, software engineering, and operations? Then you might be a great fit to join us as a Software Development Manager in Advertising.

Advertising Amazon Marketing Cloud teams build Advanced analytics and activation systems that is secure, privacy-safe, and dedicated cloud-based environment where advertisers can easily perform analytics across multiple, pseudonymized data sets to generate unique insights and take actions to optimize their campaigns. Inputs can include an advertiser’s own data sets, as well as their Amazon Advertising campaign events, such as impressions, clicks, and conversions. AMC reports can help with campaign measurement, audience refinement, supply optimization, and more, enabling advertisers to make more informed decisions about their cross-channel marketing investments. Our services ingest billions of behavioral signals every day. Speed, scale, and accuracy are critical to our success.

You will lead an Agile team launching and growing business initiatives. You will be responsible for developing targeting and bidding applications. Your team will have end-to-end ownership of business, technology, and operations, giving you the responsibility and autonomy to ensure success. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7. You are detail- and customer-oriented and have excellent problem-solving abilities. You are a confident people manager with a track record of growing high-performance teams. Successful candidates will have a background in software development, most likely with a Computer Science or related degree.

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 systems, delivering results, and working on exciting and challenging projects.

Key job responsibilities

1. Earn trust across different levels and multiple groups of a large organization
2. Work with technology and digital media
3. Exceptional ability to analyze and interpret large amounts of data in order to make recommendations for improvement
4. Strong oral and written communication skills, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope technical requirements and prioritize project work
5. Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills
6. Ability to think strategically and act tactically
7. Have an opportunity to lead and grow a team of engineers
8. Opportunity to grow and broaden your leadership and technical skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation
9. Change the way customers use data to drive business success
10. Have fun and inspire team members to enjoy work, be action-oriented and stretch their imagination
11. Ability to get a lot done in a startup environment with a mix of ambiguity and opportunity

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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