Software Development Manager

READY TO DO SOMETHING BIG

How would you build the next generation of mission critical systems and services that power the ability to send store and manage billions of products across the globe on behalf of our selling partners

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is the Amazon service for worldwide sellers that offers access to Amazons vast distribution network as a service. Similar to how AWS provides infrastructure as a service FBA allows sellers to only pay for what they use creating a seamless experience to leverage our worldclass infrastructure. Sellers from Fortune 50 companies to hundreds of thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs in 135 countries worldwide rely upon our worldleading technology to grow and thrive on Amazons Marketplaces.

As a leader within FBA you will provide both strategic and tactical oversight to build the features and functionality required to have the best in class offering for sellers. This leader will create mechanisms to drive optimal seller behavior for FBA inventory management reducing total supply chain costs and making it easier for sellers to get their inventory close to customers delivering more items with a Prime delivery promise. This leader will invent new ways to deliver value for sellers and their products while leveraging the scale and innovation of technology from across the Amazon family including AWS.

We operate as a startup within Amazon providing our team great flexibility in product and technology direction. Come join us and build the future!

Key job responsibilities
This Software Development Manager role is pivotal to delivering an exceptional experience for FBA customers and sellers worldwide. This leader will manage a team that develops and maintains highly scalable highly available web services and systems at the heart of FBA technology offerings. These services support the FBA business globally through rapidly evolving and complex demands in a high9s availability environment.

A day in the life
This leader will:
* Work with senior leaders in FBA to define product strategy and roadmap
* Lead highquality of software products against project plans and delivery commitments; architect and develop the best technical designs for extensibility reliability and scalability
* Build and develop a high performance software development organization by hiring mentoring and growing a bestinclass team
* Own all operational metrics and support
* Work directly with development teams in Bellevue Toronto Bangalore and across the globe on shared projects and dependent deliverables

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
10 years of professional software development experience
10 years of experience architecting and designing (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new systems.
5 years of engineering team management experience.
Experience partnering with product and program management teams.
Experience leading multiple concurrent programs projects and development teams in an Agile environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience with SQL/NoSQL data stores.
Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and highvolume transaction applications.

Masters degree (MS/ME) in Computer Science Computer Engineering or in a related technical discipline.
Prior experience architecting developing and operating large scale distributed systems.
Prior experience in component architecture simplification data structures and code refactoring.
Experience with highvolume transaction processing.
Retail/ecommerce system design experience in a global context.

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