Software Development Manager

Software Development Manager, Amazon

Are you an innovative and accomplished professional seeking for a role with a significant impact and growth? Amazon is looking for a dynamic Software Development Engineer to join our Core Services team under Worldwide Customer purchase Journey.

The Shipping and Region Authority (SARA) organization innovates on foundational products that shape the customer shopping journey, beginning from the gateway page of their visit through search and discovery experiences. SARA’s products also help drive checkout and fulfillment customer experiences. Through a complex orchestration of its four domains (Shipping, Regions, Locations, Restrictions), SARA influences and frames the shopping CX. Our systems are architected for scale and consistency, offering configurable, flexible, and global solutions (standardized globally but customized for local regulations). We integrate with multiple cross technology and functional services to identify customer locations , identify the shipping options and apply sales and shipping restrictions.

In this role, you will scope complex projects and deliver simple, elegant solutions by collecting product and business requirements, driving the development schedule from design to release, making appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, and clearly communicating goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional teams. You will interact with a broad cross-section of the Amazon organization, clarify ambiguous issues, and negotiate effective technical solutions between development and business teams. You will anticipate bottlenecks and escalate issues when required to ensure on-time delivery. This role requires a seasoned individual with excellent experience as a Software Development Manager for distributed SOA software systems and the ability to guide high-level technical design while considering potential future areas of fraud our platform might encounter.


Key job responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:
- Building a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations
- Designing and developing state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems
- Cultivating engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning
- Providing thought leadership and establishing technical vision for the team
- Mentoring and growing superstar SDEs to take on increasingly higher responsibilities
This is a role for someone who wants to influence across organizations, work on high-profile, high-impact initiatives that impact Amazon's bottom line.

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications

- 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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Experience Level

Mid Level