Software Development Manager, Global Payments Tech

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The Amazon Payments(AP) organization is hiring a Software Development Manager with a vision to provide Amazon businesses with industry leading checkout conversion rates by minimizing friction and maximizing access for customers. PayStation Checkout and Wallet enables customers to make fast and secure payments with their desired payment methods. We operate over 35 services including 9 tier1 services that handle all payment method definition and selection requests in Amazon.
We are looking for a highly skilled experienced and motivated Engineering Leader to innovate and solve the challenges at a massive scale. You will drive product direction and roadmap planning project execution and closely collaborate with engineers to develop cuttingedge systems. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and leadership expertise and ability to work within a fastpaced startup culture in a large company to deliver new payment experience and delight millions of customers.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor and start on the FinTech innovation. You will use your experience to drive innovative customerfocused payment solutions to provide local paying experiences for Amazons customers around the globe.
If you are a superstar SDM come join us! You will get an opportunity to influence Amazons technical architecture across multiple organizations establish and own a roadmap. This role requires working across engineering and product teams to define strategy and requirements and lead cross functional development teams from design through delivery. You will be accountable for driving the entire product lifecycle from product definition through specification coding quality assurance and launch to the world. This position involves regular communication with senior leadership on status risks and change control. Crossteam coordination agile project management and executive presentation skills are essential. This opportunity requires excellent technical problemsolving analytical and communication skills.

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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.