Senior Software Development Engineer Tech Lead Amazon

The Forge team provides tools services and frameworks for one of Amazons fastest growing businesses. The teams mission is to create engaging and intuitive advertising experiences across campaign creation management and strategic recommendations. We help advertisers reach their marketing goals and getting the most out of their brand and product catalogs while minimizing cognitive load. We accelerate advertiser success through every stage of the advertising cyclefrom planning discovery and decisions to launch manage and monitoring of campaigns through to ongoing optimization via recommendations and insights. Our customers include sellers vendors authors entertainment creators (both endemic and nonendemic) as well as partners agencies and Amazons marketing and sales teams who operate globally and across all device types.

We are looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer to help us evolve the tools services and frameworks we provide. We seek that rare combination of a solid coding background a proven track record of applying technologies at scale and a willingness to challenge the status quo and raise the bar on every service and feature we build.


Key job responsibilities
A strong understanding of and a desire to deeply learn customer and developer needs experience building and operating consumerfacing systems from the ground up excellent analytical skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior partners (Sr. SDM Director VP) as the initiatives are highly strategic and visible across Amazons senior leadership.

You will be responsible for challenging the status quo raising the bar on every service and feature we build driving the teams longterm vision and architecture shaping roadmaps and providing technical leadership to the engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive design and architecture experience knowledge of AWS technologies and services (e.g. AWS Lambda ECS CloudFormation VPC API Gateway Amazon CloudWatch etc. frontend and middletier frameworks and a proven track record of building missioncritical highly scalable systems.

To drive our campaign creation technology evolution strategy we are looking for someone selfmotivated who will invest time in understanding customers in a meaningful way is highly goaloriented selfdriven to push boundaries and has a track record of delivering results


5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
Experience developing fullstack applications with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. Vue NextJs NuxtJS Express Fastify Spring Grails ..
Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures algorithm design problemsolving and complexity analysis.
Experience working with Cloud/Amazon Web Services (AWS) products.

Proven experience in platform/framework frontend development and building scalable frontend infrastructure software or distributed systems for commercial online services.
Experience in design API integration and adherence to API standards such as OpenAPI familiarity with RESTful APIs and expertise in domaindriven design approaches.
Proven experience working with data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) managing data pipelines and running highvelocity A/B tests is a plus.
Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment driving operational excellence and best practices.
Demonstrated influence on system design at the organizational level.
Understanding of a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.
Experience with modern test automation frameworks like Cypress WebdriverIO Playwright etc

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.