The Amazon Seller Services Technology team is seeking an innovative intellectually curious results-oriented technology leader with a history of driving large-scale software solutions leading teams in project scoping planning and delivering on time with high quality. Would you like to join us and help grow the seller business in Japan
Amazon is working very hard to offer the Earths Biggest Selection to our customers. To satisfy broad customer needs for online shopping at Amazon we started Selling on Amazon (SOA) in 2007 in Japan. The service has enabled third party sellers to sell on which has greatly contributed to increase of selection available on Amazon to date. To further increase selection in quality and quantity along with our vision we are developing software solutions to simplify the process of adding new products to the Amazon catalog and lower the bar for sellers to start selling on Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager on the Japan Seller Services Tech team you:
- Own major deliverables end-to-end drive roadmaps and provide technical leadership to the engineering team.
- Are responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact.
- Work with product managers in developing a strategy and roadmap to provide compelling capabilities for customer and sellers.
- Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Instill best practices for software development and documentation assure designs meet requirements and ensures that proper quality assurance (QA) processes are in place.
- Ensure Operational Excellence: monitoring & operation of production services.
- Own the prioritization planning of projects and features Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments.
- Have demonstrated capability to provide depth and breadth technical leadership to agile teams.
- Manage and coach a team of 8-12 SDEs
- Recruit and hire the right team members as needed
- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 8 years of engineering experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced multi-disciplined distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
- Experience partnering with product and 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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