Software Development Manager

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Manager to solve deep technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast paced environment working with smart passionate software developers and product managers.

This is an opportunity to define build and deliver projects that have direct technical product and business impact on Amazon. This role will give you an opportunity to work with many different teams and learn a range of new systems leveraging the deep collection of technologies throughout the company and extending them to allow us to boldly go where no other company has gone before in the logistics industry.

This is a great position for someone who can easily scale up and down their thinking architecturally to bring customercentric solutions to market by intellectual leadership and influence on technology product and business teams. You will be leading a significant piece of Transportation technology and will work on some of the initiatives planned to support our rapid evolution and growth of the network and solve some of the most challenging problems. You will regularly interact with Senior Leadership across the company and will be overall responsible for driving the technology vision and roadmap for services owned.

We are looking for Software Development Managers who are passionate about conceptualizing building and operating massively scalable systems. You will be leading some of the smartest engineering teams and will be responsible for driving best practices and continuous improvements in operational and engineering excellence.

7 years of relevant engineering experience
3 years of people management experience managing engineers
Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
Sound technical and product/business judgment
Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprisescale software development
Experience building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems
Experience in network distributed asynchronous and concurrent programming
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Exhibits excellent judgment
Hires great people. Develops great people.
Has relentlessly high standards
Thinks strategically but stays on top of tactical
Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
Thinks big and has convictions
Results oriented
Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others
Strong verbal written & interpersonal communication skills.
Proven ability to define needs develop plans coordinate resources and implement action plans.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines.
A proven track record of delivering quality software products on time and on budget.
Experience with a variety of development methodologies and mature understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Experience with enterprise software architecture and development technologies including Java and relational databases
Solid experience with Agile methods Cloud based architectures mobile technologies is a plus.

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