Software Development Manager

READY TO DO SOMETHING BIG?
How would you build the next generation of mission critical systems and services that power the ability to send, store and manage billions of products across the globe on behalf of our selling partners?
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is the Amazon service for world-wide sellers that offers access to Amazon’s vast distribution network as a service. Similar to how AWS provides infrastructure as a service, FBA allows sellers to only pay for what they use, creating a seamless experience to leverage our world-class infrastructure. Sellers, from Fortune 50 companies to hundreds of thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs, in 135 countries worldwide, rely upon our world-leading technology to grow and thrive on Amazon’s Marketplaces.
As a leader within FBA, you will provide both strategic and tactical oversight to build the features and functionality required to have the best in class offering for sellers. This leader will create mechanisms to drive optimal seller behavior for FBA inventory management, reducing total supply chain costs and making it easier for sellers to get their inventory close to customers, delivering more items with a Prime delivery promise. This leader will invent new ways to deliver value for sellers and their products, while leveraging the scale and innovation of technology from across the Amazon family, including AWS.
We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing our team great flexibility in product and technology direction. Come, join us and build the future!
Key job responsibilities
This Software Development Manager role is pivotal to delivering an exceptional experience for FBA customers and sellers worldwide. This leader will manage a team that develops and maintains highly scalable, highly available web services and systems at the heart of FBA technology offerings. These services support the FBA business globally, through rapidly evolving and complex demands in a high-9’s availability environment.
A day in the life
This leader will:
* Work with senior leaders in FBA to define product strategy and roadmap
* Lead high-quality execution of software products against project plans and delivery commitments; architect and develop the best technical designs for extensibility, reliability, and scalability
* Build and develop a high performance software development organization by hiring, mentoring and growing a best-in-class team
* Own all operational metrics and support
* Work directly with development teams in Bellevue, Toronto, Bangalore, and across the globe on shared projects and dependent deliverables
- 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 8+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 6+ years of engineering team management experience
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- 7+ years of leading multiple Agile teams (like Scrum Masters, Product Owners) concurrently or at scale experience
- Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
- Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)
- Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications
- 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
- Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or MS degree
- Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience in computer architecture
- Experience in a high volume, transactional and distributed system environment
- Experience with retail or e-commerce research in a global context
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