Description

Want to work on one of the highest priorities across Amazon Ads? This is your chance to help build a billion dollar business, innovate on a new product, and have a positive impact on millions of views while working with industry-leading technologies. We're growing an team to support the Sponsored Ads business that powers the advertising experience for millions of viewers and advertisers daily. This is a unique opportunity to get in early and drive significant portions of the technical roadmap.

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are constantly challenging ourselves to create world-class products and an unparalleled shopping experience for our hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

As a Frontend Engineer, you will play a vital role in delivering web experiences that enables Sponsored Display advertisers to manage their ad campaigns in a frictionless manner. You will focus on enhancing the advertiser experience including leveraging the latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities that delight our customers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ship features from design to release as well as to optimize tools, processes to improve upon operational excellence for your team and for our integrators.

We believe strongly in experimentation, iterating quickly and getting feedback from our customers. As a member of this team, you'll will lead the efforts to help our advertisers increase their shopper reach by delivering on new expansion initiatives, accelerate innovation, and maximize advertiser return on investment.

This involves deep understanding of the advertising front-end architecture and technologies and the employment of cutting edge techniques. If you are someone who seeks out new challenges and are excited about creating highly performant latency-neutral pixel perfect products alongside working with Product Managers and UX Designers, then you should definitely apply for this job.

About the team

Sponsored Display is Amazon Advertising’s self-service display advertising offering, which empowers any advertiser – regardless of budget size, advertising experience, or technical expertise – to set up display campaigns that show on key placements across Amazon retail website and apps, devices (Kindle, Fire Tablet, Fire TV, Echo), third party websites (e.g. nytimes.com) and mobile apps. As a startup product within Amazon Advertising, our team needs to be highly nimble and move quickly to release new features and capabilities. Our team participates in research to better understand our advertising customers which allows us to implement engaging user experiences as we implement new features across the many different areas of Sponsored Display.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Toronto, ON, CAN

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience

• 2+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience

• Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of agile software development methodology experience

• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node

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, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.