Software Development Manager

The Partner Support and Solutions team is looking for a Software Development Manager to help us build scalable and extensible world-class platform and applications on top of it. Do you like creating software solutions to atypical problems by "breaking the mold" type thinking? Is having the ability to see your work positively affect millions of peoples something that gives you a sense of pride? If you answered YES to these questions, it's time for you to consider joining Amazon's Seller Experience team responsible for global intelligent machine learning software development. Do we have your attention now? Keep reading to learn more…

Our goal is simple – the Seller Experience Team seeks to make online selling more attractive to a broader demographic of potential retailers through superior scalable object-oriented platform. Your work will directly impact cost, selection and the customer experience for both internal and external customers alike. We build internet-scale distributed systems that enhance the Amazon Seller experience. Our teams get to work on truly unique problems and develop atypical solutions – talk about thinking out of the box…there is no box We are forward thinkers doing what no one else is doing. It doesn't exist? We will build it.

As an experienced Software Development manager, you have a passion for building quality software and solving hard problems with team of brilliant engineers. You hire and develop key talent and tirelessly pursue bringing the best out of your team. Because you are customer-centric, you understand and appreciate being a driving factor for all software solutions developed as you realize how many people rely on and use your product. Putting a less-than-ideal solution into production is not an option. You enjoy working on scalable, extensible architecture as your team creates software used by a wide range of stakeholders. Coming to work each day is exciting and makes your work fun as you are also developing a next generation, world-class system that provides functionality to different Amazon businesses while leveraging data and machine learning techniques to tailor the user experience. Because you understand that the needs of customers and technical answers to their questions are dynamic, you handle ambiguity in stride as your ultimate goal is to innovate and simplify to create the optimal solution for Amazon Sellers.

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:
- 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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