Software Development Manager

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics.

Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets Fire TV Fire phone and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

The DSCOT Technology team develops and supports systems and processes that make planning manufacturing launching and supporting our devices as efficient and frictionless as possible. We are growing and looking for a talented Software Development Manager to help build our Supply Chain and Ops platform. We own and build platforms to support everything from Supply Planning Materials Management Product Lifecycle Management to Device Costing among others. Come join the team that helps Amazon invent and innovate the Amazon Devices Supply chain and work with the best and the brightest in the industry!

We are looking for a proven and experienced Software Development Manager who can help lead the team in building innovative solutions for Amazon. As a Software Development Manager you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers in the design development test and deployment of our software and services. The successful candidate will have an established background in developing complex systems a strong technical background excellent project management skills great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Our ideal candidate has great insight into our customers (and the analytic skills to develop these insights) the vision and creativity to find innovative ways to act on these insights the technical chops to translate those ideas into innovative design and interpersonal and management skills to harness the passion and energy of teams across the company to drive the designs into the world as products that will delight our customers.

In this role you will work closely with senior leaders stakeholders software engineers scientists and product teams across Amazon to drive large cross-org innovations and project delivery activities.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager your responsibilities include:

Define design and deliver software applications.

Mentoring and developing your team of engineers.

Managing the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment.

Collaborate with multiple business stakeholders engineering and design teams to coordinate prioritize and deliver to an ambitious roadmap.

- 7 years of engineering experience
- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- 10 years of experience developing software
- 5 years of experience managing people
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience taking complex projects from initial concept through final launch.
- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests and recommend alternative technical and business approaches
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working with supply chain and/or manufacturing operations systems
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

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