15h Left Software Dev Manager III, Amazon Pharmacy

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Lead a pioneering team at Amazon Pharmacy as we build our next-generation Pharmacy Warehouse Management System (WMS) from the ground up in Bangalore. As the founding development manager, you'll establish and scale a high-performing engineering team focused on mission-critical fulfillment technology that ensures medication safety for millions of customers across America.
You'll drive the technical vision and execution of complex distributed systems handling inventory management, order orchestration, and compliance-critical workflows, while integrating with cutting-edge robotics and AI/ML capabilities. This role requires a strong technical leader who can balance rapid innovation with unwavering quality standards in a highly regulated healthcare environment.
Amazon Pharmacy is transforming healthcare delivery by combining Amazon's customer obsession and operational excellence with pharmacy services. You'll partner closely with senior leadership to shape the technical strategy of this rapidly growing business, while building and mentoring a team of talented engineers. Your organization will be instrumental in scaling Amazon's pharmacy operations nationwide, working with teams across the globe to deliver solutions that could fundamentally change how Americans access their medications.
The ideal candidate brings experience leading complex technical programs, expertise in building highly available services at scale, and a track record of growing and developing engineering talent. If you're passionate about solving challenging technical problems while building and inspiring teams that deliver results, we want to talk to you.

Key job responsibilities
. Building, leading and growing diverse, inclusive and high-performing engineering product teams, including recruiting, mentoring, motivating, promoting and performance management.
. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including customers, product managers, stakeholders and leaders to ensure the successful delivery of product capabilities.
. Timely execution and prioritization of goals for the team and effectively mitigating risks.
Strategic leadership to create product roadmaps, set the vision for the team and collaboratively partner with other stakeholder teams.
. Technical leadership including architecture and design discussions for science and engineering problems and technical deep dives to ensure resolution of root causes of complex issues.

About the team
Amazon's mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access the healthcare products and services they need to get and stay healthy.. Towards this mission, Amazon Pharmacy Fulfillment Tech strives to build technology to fulfill the world's healthcare needs as fast as possible at the highest quality, lowest cost, and greatest convenience. While our near-term focus is building fulfillment technology to support Amazon Pharmacy, our North Star Vision is to support the fulfillment of any type of healthcare experience at Amazon. To that end, our systems are flexible enough to integrate with other in-house and third-party systems and extensible to accommodate the ever-growing and changing healthcare needs of our customers. Whether it is building our own software or integrating with other in-house and/or third-party services, we strive to leverage the best-in-class technology available to deliver delightful healthcare experiences to Amazon customers, starting with Pharmacy.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ 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
- 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
- Excellent communication and articulation skills.

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
- Familiarity with GenAI tools and their application in software development

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