Software Development Manager

Join one of Amazon's fastest-growing initiatives, Amazon Business, where we're revolutionizing how business customers discover and purchase industrial, scientific, and business products across global marketplaces. At Amazon Business, a fast-growing startup passionate about building solutions, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech & retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations thrive. At Amazon Business, we strive to be the most recognized and preferred strategic partner for smart business buying. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries.

As the SDM for AB Customer Data Platform team, you are a key member of our tech leadership, driving the development of robust, scalable, and user-friendly data annotation platforms that integrate seamlessly with other AB services. Your work will directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of AB customer acquisition and engagement

We are looking for a leader with strong technical expertise, excellent project management skills, and a passion for creating tools that empower customer data platform. As a technical leader, you'll architect and deliver sophisticated Data Products and AI solutions that will reshape how AB teams make decisions.

Key job responsibilities
- Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
- Team obsessed: You help grow your team members to achieve results. You foster the creative atmosphere to let engineers innovate, while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
- You're ambitious, yet humble: You recognize that there's always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.
- Engaged by ambiguity: You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; you're quick to identify any gaps in the team and the right person to fill them to best deliver value to customers.
- Be Scientific: As the owner of the system that produces that data that powers customer acquisition, registration and engagement, it is important to ramp up on and understand the needs of all the client teams.

A day in the life
As a software development manager on this team, you will play a pivotal role in the following:

- Work with the team and stakeholders to help drive business decisions.
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions to drive service optimization, cost, and security.
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
- Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ 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

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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