Software Development Manager Digital Acceleration

Want to define the nextgeneration subscriptions engine powering purchasing of digital content and subscriptions Excited about building highly scalable and flexible transactional systems responsible for managing billions of orders and subscriptions Ready to rise to the challenge to enable an evergrowing set of businesses across the company to customize their purchase experiences

If you are a passionate selfmotivated excellent people manager and an effective delivery manager who loves solving deep technical problems then we are looking for a leader like you!

The Subscriptions team in Digital Acceleration is recruiting for a Software Development Manager to lead a key part of our development team focused on building a subscriptions engine to enable businesses across the company to sell digital goods and provide subscriptions. Some of our noteworthy businesses are Prime Kindle Unlimited Audible Applications Music Books Newspapers and Videos. We are currently developing the nextgeneration subscriptions engine to bring new features to our partner businesses reduce latency and simplify onboarding. Come join us to shape the future of digital purchasing and subscriptions!

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager you will lead a team focused on building a subscriptions engine to solve problems that make it easier to buy subscriptions and digital goods across Amazon and external partners. The team would enable businesses to adopt new sales channels and make those channels seamless and fullyfeatured for customers. You will be responsible for leading a team of engineers in design development test and deployment of these services at the same uphold the bar for OE (operational excellence). You will also be responsible for growing your team via hiring and developing engineers to meet their career goals. Candidates will need to think outside the box to quickly come up with innovative solutions to problems that are unique to Amazon. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing real time scalable systems a strong technical ability excellent project management skills great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

About the team
Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering subscriptions and device management for Prime Amazon Video Music Audible Alexa and Kindle amongst other digital businesses. We process billions of digital purchases every year and enable our digital businesses to grow their businesses worldwide. We are on a mission to be earths best provider of onetime and recurring digital commerce delivering a seamless and enjoyable postpurchase customer experience.

3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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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The base salary for this position ranges from $171400/year up to $286200/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.