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Are you a Software Development Manager with strong technical leadership, innovative problem-solving skills, and a passion for building products that directly impact millions of selling partners Come join the Seller Fees Tech organization as we embark on an exciting new charter focused on marketplace expansion.

The Seller Fees Tech organization plays a critical role in the Amazon's marketplace financial ecosystem, responsible for calculating, processing, and managing the complex fee structures that enable sellers to do business across Amazon's global marketplaces. Supporting over 2MM+ active sellers, our systems handle billions of transactions annually, ensuring accurate and transparent fee calculations, incentive distributions, and financial adjustments for selling partners worldwide. We build and maintain the critical financial systems that power seller transactions, influence business decisions, and directly impact Amazon's bottom line through proper fee assessment and collection. Our work is fundamental to overall seller economics - we enable sellers to build sustainable businesses through transparent fee structures, provide financial clarity that informs their pricing strategies and inventory decisions, create incentive mechanisms that reward seller behaviors aligned with customer-centric goals, and ultimately influence the profitability and growth trajectory of millions of businesses worldwide. The systems we build directly impact how sellers operate on Amazon's marketplaces and are crucial to their long-term success and scale.

Our team operates at the intersection of technology and finance, ensuring that Amazon's fee ecosystem remains fair, transparent, and scalable as we expand into new markets. We face unique technical challenges including real-time fee calculation at massive scale, complex business logic implementation across diverse marketplace contexts, and building resilient systems that maintain financial accuracy while processing millions of transactions per hour. Our solutions must be both technically elegant and business-aware, as even small discrepancies can significantly impact seller trust and Amazon's revenue streams.

As an SDM III in our Expansions team, you'll lead initiatives to close critical parity gaps for Fees, Incentives, and Adjustments between established and emerging marketplaces. You'll drive innovation through GenAI adoption, improving team efficiency and delivery capabilities while creating seamless experiences for our selling partners worldwide. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact at scale while working with latest technologies in a highly distributed systems environment.

Key job responsibilities
A. Leadership & Team Development
1. Independently manage a development team responsible for closing parity gaps in the Seller Fees Tech domain across global marketplaces
2. Represent your team autonomously with minimal guidance from management about long-term strategic direction
3. Partner with engineers and leadership to define the tenets and vision for your team and systems
4. Drive mindful discussions that lead to crisp decisions around marketplace expansion priorities
5. Build strategic SDE growth plans, collaborating on project assignments that help team members expand their skillsets and advance their careers

B. Technical Execution & Innovation
1. Establish structures enabling your team to deliver complex software initiatives spanning established and emerging marketplaces
2. Drive GenAI adoption within your team to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity
3. Partner with customers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to determine project priorities and execution strategy
4. Create reasonable schedules and adjust priorities to ensure the right customer, technology, and engineering outcomes
5. Tackle ambiguous problems and proactively mitigate risks before they become roadblocks
6. Gain deep understanding of the products and systems your team owns, their limitations, and the reasoning behind architectural decisions
7. Support the adoption of high-quality engineering practices throughout your organization

C. Cross-Functional Collaboration
1. Work hands-on with engineering, leadership, and Product Management teams to deliver results
2. Foster inputs and participation from all levels of the organization
3. Work closely with local engineering staff to design and execute your team's feature roadmap
4. Provide direct input into requirement definition through collaboration with customers, developers, and product managers
5. Define and communicate software architecture effectively to engineers, partners, leaders, and a broad set of stakeholders

Basic Qualifications

- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- 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
- Experience with GenAI tools and frameworks for software development

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