Software Development Manager, AFT External Fulfillment

Amazon Fulfilment Technologies (AFT) is seeking an innovative and results-driven engineer to join our team. AFT is the backbone of Amazon's global operations, developing modern software, hardware, and processes that power our vast network of fulfilment centers that move billions of units of inventory, employs tens of thousands of people, and ensures that customers get what they want when promised. We do this by building automated solutions to handle things that technology does well, while relying on people to handle things that humans do well.

Key job responsibilities

This Software Development Manager role is pivotal to delivering an exceptional experience for External Fulfillment customers and vendors worldwide. This leader will manage a team that develops and maintains highly scalable, highly available web services and systems at the heart of External Fulfillment technology offerings. These services support the EF business globally, through rapidly evolving and complex demands in a high-9’s availability environment.

A day in the life

This leader will:

* Work with senior leaders in EF to define product Tech strategy and roadmap

* Lead high-quality execution of software products against project plans and delivery commitments; architect and develop the best technical designs for extensibility, reliability, and scalability

* Build and develop a high performance software development organization by hiring, mentoring and growing a best-in-class team

* Own all operational metrics and support

* Work directly with development teams in Bellevue, Toronto, Bangalore, and across the globe on shared projects and dependent deliverables

- 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 engineering team management

- Experience in engineering

- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services

- Experience partnering with product and 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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