Amazon Business Search Experience is seeking an exceptional Engineering Leader to spearhead our efforts in revolutionizing B2B commerce. This high-impact role will be instrumental in shaping the future of how businesses, governments, and institutions procure supplies on a global scale.
As a key member of our leadership team, you will drive the technical vision and strategy for building innovative solutions that enable business customers to efficiently research, discover, and purchase business, industrial, and scientific products across vast catalogs. Your expertise will be crucial in developing seamless experiences across multiple devices, marketplaces, and regions.
This position requires a visionary leader who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership. You'll be at the forefront of solving complex challenges for a diverse client base - from individual professionals to large institutions - whose needs significantly differ from those of traditional Amazon customers.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a substantial impact on Amazon's fastest-growing segment, leading a team that's expanding even more rapidly than Amazon's overall impressive growth. Your leadership will be pivotal in driving innovation, scaling our operations, and ultimately transforming Search for B2B on a global scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Hire, mentor and lead software development managers.
- Lead design, implementation, and deployment of successful highly distributed, large scale services.
- Play a critical role in the broad business planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements.
- Help form long-term technical and business strategy and goals.
- Understand business context to decisions made within and across groups.
- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach. Be a hands-on technical leader and contributor.
- Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.
- Work with globally distributed team.
About the team
At Amazon Business, we're building something special. Our development team is on a mission to revolutionize how businesses buy - from small professional offices to Fortune 500 companies. We're tackling unique challenges that go beyond traditional e-commerce, creating solutions for customers who think in terms of bulk orders, procurement systems, and business compliance.
What makes our team different? We operate like a startup within Amazon - fast-paced, innovative, and always experimenting - but with the resources and scale of a global tech leader. We're growing faster than Amazon itself, which means endless opportunities to make an impact and shape the future of B2B commerce.
Our team thrives on complexity, embraces challenges, and celebrates the wins that come from transforming how businesses operate worldwide. If you're excited about building solutions that will serve millions of businesses globally, this is where you want to be.- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
