Job Description
The Consumables Shopping Experience (CSE) team is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to deliver a world class shopping experience on amazon.com. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with multiple teams and disciplines across Amazon to create new retail and platform shopping experiences. This includes the end-to-end experience across platforms and devices globally that enable consumers to easily find, purchase, and reorder the essential products they need and use everyday. Doing so will require the invention of many new capabilities and innovative approaches across search and discovery, evaluation and purchase, up-sell and repurchase via a variety of new formats and delivery options. As a Software Development Manager you will work on a variety of strategic projects for the consumables customer experience across baby, beauty, grocery, and health and personal care in a multi-billon dollar category.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Vancouver, BC, CANBASIC 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 teamsPREFERRED 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- Experienced in delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment- Proven experience in managing large scale enterprise projects- Solid foundation in understanding service oriented architecture and service inter-dependencies that drive technical solutions for multi-tiered systems- Experience solving challenging engineering problems with multiple constraints- Experience managing the lifecycle of a complex cross-functional program with considerable impact