Amazon has spent years building one of the worlds most efficient and optimized supply chains. Our team builds on that foundation and continue to innovate endtoend supply chain capabilities for merchants to conduct their on and offAmazon business under a single umbrella of Amazon Supply Chain Services. Our vision is to enable every entrepreneur in the world to reach every customer in the world through every channel they can imagine.
As we rapidly scale to serve our on and offAmazon customers we are looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) who can lead their team of Software engineers and work across our organization and stakeholders with both strategic and tactical vision. We are building products that are fundamental to Amazons future and we are tackling some of the worlds most intriguing problems involving software architecture design customer experience and business strategy.
As a Software Development Manager you will coown driving multiorg high impacting initiatives for Amazon. You will lead the software engineering team to deliver next generation of our Amazon supply chain services by making impactful decisions and delivering value for our merchants. You are the right fit If you are someone who excels in attracting and growing talent; You thrive in a fast paced environment working on critical high scale systems and spur innovation; You are skilled at managing large size complex projects with multiorg crossregional dependencies that require interacting with both technical as well as business; You have the right skills to influence senior leaders; You have relentlessly high bar on all aspects of software development and deployment life cycle; You have strong verbal and written communication skills; You are selfdrive and cherish the thought of leading an initiative deemed to make history for Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
1. Hire manage and grow your team of diverse engineers.
2. Create and maintain short and longterm product and tech roadmap.
3. Contributing to the 3Year technical and the operational plans for our products and services.
4. Influence stakeholders within and outside of the org and be able to work across multiple orgs.
5. Deliver value for our customers while also focusing on building the right tech for operational excellence maintainability and future extensibility.
6. Set the right operational models for the teams to succeed.
7. Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of management building trust across the organization and demonstrating discretion with sensitive information.
8. Demonstrate the ability to break abstract goals into attainable measurable work items.
9. Be comfortable working in a fastpaced everchanging environment while driving teams to complete goals and execute across multiple parallel running technical projects.
3 years of engineering team management experience
7 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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