Come help us to build a world-class Public API Infrastructure as part of one of Amazon's fastest growing strategic businesses: Advertising. Our APIs provide self-service low-latency campaign management functionality for Sponsored Ads and Display Ads world-wide at massive scale. We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the development of the API Presentation layer.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for the full software development lifecycle of the presentation layer for the Ads Public API. This includes both the Amazon Ads Advanced Tools Center and our Bulksheets application that acts as an entry point for advanced advertisers managing their campaigns at scale. You will own the full SDLC and for these applications, and use them to raise the bar for our Public API experience as a whole.
Candidates for this position should have strong engineering fundamentals as well as real-world experience. You will showcase diverse architectural approaches and design patterns in your technical design. Think big and stay informed about industry standards in Ad tech space. Communicate effectively across all leadership levels verbally and in writing. Lead deep technical discussions with senior engineers, collaborating to solve challenging problems. You will be able to quickly grasp new systems and provide valuable consultation.
A day in the life
In this role, you are responsible for making sure your team delivers on its goals while maintaining a high quality bar in the code we build and helping your engineers grow in their careers. Delivering on our mission requires close collaboration with a myriad of stakeholders both technical and non-technical. It also requires the ability to deeply understand your team’s tech stack and overall technical strategy. This role includes significant ambiguity as we work to align a new SDLC around the org with more focus on code reusability.
About the team
We are responsible for defining how all Amazon Ads features are surfaced to customers through our public APIs. We are champions of Domain Driven Development and API-first around the organization, and obsess over making our APIs a delight to integrate with. Our mission is to make Amazon Ads APIs easy for customers to integrate with, and easy for internal teams to extend. We do this by promoting code reuse internally and externally to make sure no one has to reinvent the wheel when we launch new functionality.
