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Amazon Software Development Manager, Lunar in Tempe, Arizona
Description
Want to join one of the hottest growing teams at Amazon? The Business to Business (B2B) market is ripe for innovation and Amazon Business (www.amazon.com/business) aims to disrupt the way buying and selling happens between businesses and suppliers. We provide business customers everything they love about Amazon, for work. We are focused on building a unique shopping experience for business users and business sellers with access to hundreds of millions of products world-wide, business-only selection, free two-day shipping, business and quantity pricing, new payment solutions, tax exemptions, dedicated customer support and much more. We've grown a lot in the years since our launch and become one of the most promising opportunities within Amazon. Go ahead and read about us on any of your favorite media outlets!
We need engineers who can step into this environment and help us build highly distributed systems to support businesses around the world selling on Amazon. You will join a highly technical and entrepreneurial team building applications to disrupt the B2B e-commerce segment. You will participate in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance. You will evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing technologies and tools, and you’ll coach and mentor junior development engineers. We work in an entrepreneurial environment and deliver value incrementally and frequently. We are still in the early stages of development, so you will be in on the ground floor. If you are a candidate with a sense of ownership, passion and drive to delight customers, come join us!
Key job responsibilities
Lead, mentor and develop a team of software engineers
Engage with multiple Product, Program, and Engineering teams at Amazon to define strategic roadmap, and ship new features
Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software
Champion operational, technical and process improvements
Manage and optimize the software development lifecycle
Represent the team in leadership meetings and drive communication with stakeholders
Foster an inclusive and diverse team culture which encourages innovation and creativity
A day in the life
Help team members towards realizing their career goals
Collaborate with product managers, principal engineers for feature definition and delivery
Manage project timelines and deliverables, unblock engineers
Collaborate with other SDMs towards broader organizational goals and projects
Stay aware of developments in the container space and upstream community projects
Contribute to technical designs
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
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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