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Are you looking for a chance to lead technology teams and drive the innovations that directly impact the experience of millions of Amazon sellers and thousands of associates? The 10000+ members of the Seller, Vendor and Brand Support Teams strive to make Amazon the best place for Sellers, Vendors and Brands (our customers) to reach consumers, driven by the experience and support we provide them in growing their businesses locally and globally. We leverage technology including automation, self-service, associate tools, and machine learning to both prevent Seller, Vendor and Brand contacts based on knowledge obtained during our support interactions, and to handle those contacts with quality and efficiency. We enable our worldwide team of associates to provide high quality customer service on the complex issues faced in selling on Amazon. We believe the best experience is one in which Sellers, Vendors and Brand owners can complete their tasks without additional help. We thus invest in technology to eliminate the root cause defects that cause Sellers to seek help, build self-service tools for Sellers to resolve their issues on their own without waiting for help from Amazon, and provides Associates with the tools that automate clerical steps and provide consistent, quality resolution. Technology is a key part of our vision and it drives our most critical goals and is essential to operating at our scale.

As an experienced Software Development manager, you have a passion for building quality software and solving hard problems with team of brilliant engineers. You will operate at all levels, driving the vision, architecture and implementation of complex technology initiatives and products, partnering with Product/Program Managers and a large Operations group to drive step change improvements in the products we offer our end customers and our associates. There is considerable innovation in this role as our ability to predict the needs of the sellers, vendors and brand, is critical to ensuring the highest usage of the product we build.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

• Experience with the scrum methodology

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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