The Rewarded Ads team is building a new and exciting product offering that enable advertisers to offer rewards to consumers when they shop on Amazon. This is an exciting direction in the Advertising world as it creates a win-win for both the advertiser and consumers.

We are seeking an experienced engineer to help us complete this vision. It is a great opportunity for someone looking to influence and help shape the technology direction of a young and growing organization. You will be providing thought leadership, drive the design, while remaining hands-on as a prolific software designer and coder. You will help with the delivery of an end to end solution that enable self-service for the advertising customer by working with other Amazon Ads teams. On this team, you will be a driving force in your development team, using your considerable experience to build an engineering culture of innovation, quality and customer obsession.

Rewarded Ads is a growing area within Amazon Ads. We have high potential to identify opportunities for new ad products, experiment, incubate and scale the most successful ideas. Our products change the way advertisers interact with Amazon Advertising. We are just getting started and this is a great opportunity to get on the ground floor of what will be a high impact capability.

Key job responsibilities
- Contribute to the technical vision for your team. You will collaborate with business and tech teams to ensure that team’s tech roadmap supports the business direction.
- Use your problem-solving skills, collaborating with creative and technical teams, thinking-big and inventing and simplifying to solve advertising challenges.
- Collaborate with teams across Amazon to integrate and optimize existing ad products to take advantage of Amazon's scale and reach.
- Design and build solutions that span the entire custom advertising stack; UX, API, audience segmentation/targeting, Ad serving and performance monitoring. Your solutions will enable delivery of innovative ad-products and experiences across wide range of devices and web.
- Deliver novel customer experiences by developing solutions which include innovative UX strategies, AWS services and large scale back-end services.
- Leverage your technical ability, excellent organizational and communication skills to build and solve challenging and ambiguous problems. You'll use your ingenuity and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
- Provide guidance and mentor SDEs in these team.
- Set a high quality bar, ensuring quality design reviews and robust engineering practices for automated testing, code coverage and full CI/CD pipelines.


About the team
We are a young team with a culture of communication, transparency and collaboration and we’re energized by new team members. We are based in Southern California (Santa Monica and San Diego).

Why join us? We offer a great opportunity to work on advertising/ e-commerce domain. We are part of Amazon Advertising which itself is rapidly growing. We are innovating on multiple new products. This opportunity provides the unique experience of developing business insights and using them to build products. You will also balance tech decisions and their business impact. As a SDE you will shape the tech roadmap for the product and grow with us. You will have ability to influence your team’s tech direction. We are low on high-severity ticket workload and expect you to build mechanisms to keep it that way.