Want to join a team that saves tens of millions of dollars per year for Amazon, and uses cutting edge technology, including machine learning and statistical modeling techniques, data mining and big data analytics, cloud computing services, and highly available/scalable distributed systems that support hundreds of millions of transactions across the globe? We have an exciting opportunity within the Payment Fraud Prevention team to build the next generation of engineering systems to address abuse of Amazon's customer-first policies that will impact multiple Amazon businesses across the globe.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate for this role will demonstrate the following qualifications and attributes:
- Leadership Abilities with a Proven track record of leading with empathy, high-performing software development teams to successful outcomes. Ability to inspire, motivate, and develop sustainable engineering culture.
- Learning Agility : Demonstrates a quick learning curve and adaptability to new technologies and business domains.
- Strong owner capable of working autonomously to drive progress on key initiatives from Inception to launch
- Fast-Paced Execution who thrives in a time-sensitive environment where rapid delivery is critical to business success. Adept at prioritizing, planning, and delivering against timelines.
- Business Acumen: Strong business judgment to make prudent technology choices that support strategic objectives with Ability to balance technical complexity with practical, customer-centric decision making
A day in the life
- Lead a talented team of Software Development Engineers in the delivery of key product features and enhancements that drive critical business metrics
- Oversee the development of solutions across a diverse technology stack, including service-oriented architecture, UI frameworks, big data, and AI/ML
- Shape the product direction by working closely with Principal Engineers to evolve the design and architecture of the team's products
- Establish and uphold high standards for software quality and engineering processes
- Provide technical leadership and direction to your team of seasoned Software Engineers.
About the team
About the Amazon Buyer Risk Prevention Teams:
The BRP (Buyer Risk Prevention) team has a worldwide reputation as the #1 in eCommerce Fraud and Abuse Prevention. Trust and Safety of our customers comes first. Always! We thrive on maintaining the highest bar of customer experience while we deliver on those tenets. The Abuse Prevention Team, a group within BRP, strives to protect Amazon businesses exposed to customer abuse while maintaining the highest level of customer experience for our good customers. This means building highly sophisticated, data-centric systems that can detect abusive patterns across millions of transactions. We build highly scalable, flexible and distributed systems that utilize the power of data at every step - compute predictive variables, build models using machine learning algorithms and plug into different pipelines to prevent abusive transactions from taking place. As Amazon businesses grow and abusers morph to find new ways to take undue advantage of our liberal policies, our engineers and data scientists are constantly innovating to stay ahead of the game and protect Amazon and our customers.- 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- 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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