Senior Front-End Engineer, Amazon Ads (ADSP - Targeting)

Join Amazon Ad's targeting program as a Senior Front-End Engineer, where you'll help shape how advertisers connect with their customers, supporting multi-billion dollar advertising products. You'll streamline advertisers interactions with our products, enabling them to reach the right customers, at the right time, and across the right channels and formats.

Working from either our Edinburgh development center or London head office, you'll be part of an agile, fast-paced team of software engineers. You'll have end-to-end ownership of the front-end experience, from designing and prototyping interfaces to delivering frameworks and new front-end experiences. From your first day, you'll collaborate with experienced engineers, designers, and scientists who are passionate about their work.

Key job responsibilities

This role requires a pragmatic technical leader comfortable with ambiguity, capable of driving the design and implementation of innovative UX / UI experiences that enable advertisers to define their targeting in an intuitive manner. You will work backward from advertiser needs, partnering closely with UX designers, product managers, software engineering leadership, and senior engineers to build capabilities that transform the advertiser experience. You will influence our product strategy and roadmap through your customer-centric approach and front-end expertise. Your technical choices will ensure that we are using the correct UX frameworks for our long term success. You will mentor junior peers who share a common passion for front-end work, and ensure that teams with limited UI experience can succeed in building high quality experiences for our advertisers.

A day in the life

On a typical day, you will collaborate with a diverse team of designers, engineers, and scientists across the Edinburgh and London development centres. You might start by participating in agile team meetings, discussing ongoing projects and aligning on priorities. Throughout the day, you would engage in various engineering and front-end activities, including :

• Designing and developing front-end experiences to enable advertisers to efficiently define ad targeting
• Collaborating with team members to review UX and code, discuss technical approaches, and refine solutions
• Participating in discussions evaluating UX and product decisions, and in technical reviews of the underly systems

About the team

Amazon Audiences is a specialized organization within Amazon Ads that focuses on developing advanced targeting solutions. The team consists of several specialized groups working on different aspects of advertising technology. These include building scalable targeting services that work without relying on user IDs, developing contextual targeting capabilities that match ads with relevant content, enabling keyword-based targeting for advertisers, providing technology-based targeting options for different devices and platforms, and creating tools that help advertisers define and understand their target audiences using Amazon's retail and digital signals. The team also includes specialists who focus on search engine optimization and keyword research to help advertisers improve their visibility and reach. Throughout all these functions, the team maintains a strong commitment to preserving customer privacy while helping advertisers effectively reach their target audiences.

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