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- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 10+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new systems.
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience.
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams.
- Experience leading multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL data stores.
- Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications.- Master's degree (MS/ME) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or in a related technical discipline.
- Prior experience architecting, developing and operating large scale distributed systems.
- Prior experience in component architecture, simplification, data structures and code refactoring.
- Experience with high-volume transaction processing.
- Retail/e-commerce system design experience in a global context.

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