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Amazon Software Development Manager, Selling Partner Financial Tech in Seattle, Washington
Description
Selling on Amazon is one of Amazon’s fastest growing businesses. Since third-party sellers joined Amazon in 1999, they’ve grown to account for 58% of Amazon sales and are growing at 52% a year (compared to 25% for first-party sales by Amazon). Third-party sellers reported $1.5 billion in sales during Prime Day 2018. The Selling Partner Services team drives this multi-billion dollar business and develops solutions that enable millions of Selling Partners around the world to sell in Amazon Stores with access to 300 million engaged customers in more than 180 countries. The team is focused on building new features and services to help Selling Partners grow with Amazon.
As a Manager here, you will head your team of high performing engineers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize the platforms that processes these business events. You will interface with several teams including FBA, AGS, AGL, B2B, Brand Builder, Paid Services, Amazon Payments, Amazon India, and more. Our mission is to provide a world-class customer experience using scalable and robust software, so the problems and opportunities span both the business and technical realms.
A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing high volume and highly available services, strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.
Your day-to-day duties:
Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations
Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems
Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning
Provide thought guidance and establish technical vision for the team
Mentor and grow super star SDEs to take on increasingly higher duties
This is a role suitable for someone who wants to influence across organizations, work on high profile, high impact initiatives that impact Amazon's bottom line.
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
Preferred 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
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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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.