READY TO DO SOMETHING BIG?
How would you build the next generation of mission critical systems and services that power the ability to send, store and manage billions of products across the globe on behalf of our selling partners?
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is the Amazon service for world-wide sellers that offers access to Amazon’s vast distribution network as a service. Similar to how AWS provides infrastructure as a service, FBA allows sellers to only pay for what they use, creating a seamless experience to leverage our world-class infrastructure. Sellers, from Fortune 50 companies to hundreds of thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs, in 135 countries worldwide, rely upon our world-leading technology to grow and thrive on Amazon’s Marketplaces.
In a very real way, we are changing lives with the work we do. FBA team members wake up every day thinking about how to enable our sellers to be successful by building highly scalable and highly reliable platforms. Enabling seller success allows us to provide Amazon customers with unparalleled selection and pricing. FBA is a win for sellers and a win for customers.
What is Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)?
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The Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) team
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As a leader within FBA, you will provide both strategic and tactical oversight to build the features and functionality to create the best in class offering for sellers in current and future marketplaces. You will lead projects that require creative thinking and deep understanding of the problem space while collaborating on product decisions with the product teams. You are a thought leader, but you don't just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by building the solution. Last but not the least, you have a passion for design and architecture and a high bar for code quality.
This leader will create mechanisms to drive optimal seller behavior to reduce total supply chain costs and to make it easier for sellers to get their inventory close to customers, delivering more items with a Prime delivery promise. This leader will invent new ways to deliver value to sellers, while leveraging the scale and innovation of technology from across the Amazon family, including AWS.
We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing great flexibility in product and technology direction. The leader will manage a team of software engineers working on some of the world’s most complex transportation, logistics and inventory challenges. Backed by passionate leaders and a strong team culture, we’ll make difficult decisions and change the world together. Come, join us and build the future!
Key job responsibilities
This Software Development Manager role is pivotal to delivering an exceptional experience for FBA customers and sellers worldwide. This leader will manage a team that develops and maintains highly scalable, highly available web services and systems at the heart of FBA technology offerings. These services support the FBA business globally, through rapidly evolving and complex demands in a high-9’s availability environment.
This leader will:
1. Work with senior leaders in FBA to define the product strategy and roadmap
2. 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
3. Build and develop a high performance software development organization by hiring, mentoring and growing a best-in-class team
4. Own all operational metrics and support
5. Work directly with development teams in Bellevue, Toronto, Bangalore, and across the globe on shared projects and dependent deliverables
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related field
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new systems
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Deep understanding of system architecture and OO Design
- Experience with SQL and No SQL data stores. Detailed technical understanding of tradeoffs imposed by creating distributed, partitioned systems that can be scaled horizontally
- Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications
- Master’s degree (MS/ME) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or in a related technical discipline
- 10+ years as a development manager managing teams of 20+ engineers
- Proven track record of building and managing high-performance engineering teams
- Strong business and technical vision
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Previous demonstrated project management success on large scale, high-traffic, complex projects
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