Software Development Manager, Benefits Experience & Technology (BXT)

Our mission is to make it easy for employees and their family to discover and use the benefits that apply to them. Todays traditional benefit experiences rely heavily on content explanations and instructions for people to understand whats available to them and how to use it. We are bringing personalized and friction-free benefits to the tip of the fingers of over five million people (our employees and their dependents). Amazon Benefits help them live richer and fuller lives be it by helping them in a moment of medical need saving for retirement or helping them with a vacation. We are building a delightful mobile and web experience integrated with internal and external systems so employees dont have to go through hoops to get what they want. No employer has ever done this level of experience or personalization before and we are breaking new ground.

As a leader on this team you will influence and drive architectural and design choices and develop world-class interfaces. Our team culture encourages innovation and we expect engineers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision technical architecture and project delivery. We need a leader who can cut through the noise passionately simplify deliver results and manage a diverse team.

- 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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