The Amazon Business (B2B) organization is seeking a Software Development Manager for our Amazon Business Team. The charter of this organization is to develop innovative and compelling experiences for business customers to shop on Amazon.com via a range of devices. Our customers are challenging us to develop an Amazon-like shopping experience tailored for business purchases. Your team is tasked with developing solutions such that registered and verified businesses will experience a differentiated experience using mobile devices on Amazon.com.
The Amazon Business organization is focused on building solutions to enable B2B customers to research, discover and buy business, industrial and scientific products in large catalogs; across multiple devices, marketplaces and regions. Our customers include individual professionals, businesses and institutions that buy in either high frequency or in bulk quantities. Our customers have different needs than the traditional Amazon consumer customer base.
Amazon is looking for a leader to build a high performing team and lead the technical direction of mission critical mobile applications for millions of Amazon customers. As a leader of the team, you will have the end-to-end ownership of your areas. You will partner with other development teams company wide to deliver a coherent and unified B2B experience.
The Amazon Business team is comprised of Engineers, TPMs, Researchers, Designers and Product Managers, all tasked with a singular goal to create a world class and differentiated shopping experience for business customers. You will be a key member of this team, dedicated to our ongoing effort to launch best of breed business shopping features worldwide. The B2B team has signed up for big goals in 2016 and this could be a breakout opportunity in one’s career at Amazon. Your team will be responsible for all aspects of the customer experience from the visual interface to the back end services. You will be working with new technologies that improve usability and increase performance and scalability - latest UX frameworks, parallel processing, rendering and machine learning are just a few examples. You will also partner with a wide range of teams across Amazon.
You will partner closely with Product Managers and TPMs to help translate business requirements into technical deliverables and deliver operationally stable solution that provides compelling customer experiences. You will also be responsible for managing, building, and growing a strong technical team.
We prefer candidates who can thrive in a fast paced, high energy and fun work environment where we deliver value incrementally and frequently. We value highly technical, hands-on, data driven leaders who know their subject matters deeply and are willing to learn new areas. We look for individuals who will set aside meaningful time to develop themselves and their teams as we continually learn from customers. Its still Day 1!
- 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 in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
- Experience managing engineers
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience in engineering- 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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