Software Development Manager, Express Grocery Tech

Were on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new everyday essential shopping experience that connect customers with their daily life. Were looking for a talented Software Development Manager to lead an existing engineering team and collaborate with product managers program manager scientists and engineers to design and develop innovative shopping experiences for our customers.



Key job responsibilities
As Software Development Manager you will manage an engineering team responsible for delivering significant features across this new sub same day grocery initiative. You will work directly with product management to define requirements and apply your technical expertise and leadership skills to organize and guide your team to solve difficult software problems in a fast-paced environment. Youll work with your team to create and execute technical goals roadmaps and vision that deliver amazing customer experiences and inspire your engineers to build innovative high-quality and operationally excellent software and systems. You will lead the technical planning coordination architecture and implementation of one or more programs.

A day in the life
As Software Development Manager you and your engineering team will work alongside Program Managers and Product Managers to create and execute on product and tech roadmaps. You will manage the lifecycle (architecture design implementation documentation and measurement) of your teams software. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.

About the team
The Japan Grocery Tech CN team based in Beijing and Shanghai powers Japans fast grocery delivery experience . Our team owns end-to-end systems spanning shopping CX and personalized recommendations delivery experience perishable grocery fulfillment pricing and operation tooling. We collaborate closely with worldwide counterparts while building Japan-first features with global architectural influence.

- 5 years of engineering team management experience
- 8 years of engineering experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

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