Amazon’s Product Detail Page team seeks an experienced and motivated Sr. Software Development Manager to lead engineering teams that ensure the reliability and availability of this mission critical shopping experience. One of the most visited pages of the internet, your teams work to ensure thousands of developers can own features of the page in a federated but controlled manner.
Do you ever struggle to explain your work? How's this: "Do you shop at Amazon? Do you know the pages where Amazon's product images, details and recommendations are? The page where you click "buy Now" "Add to Cart"? You will own the systems powering that experience.
Our team blends machine learning models to rank, select and tailor the page layout for the various products and customer experiences WW. We are responsible for the experiences and services that enable developers, including our own, to create tailored shopping experiences for every customer, product, business and marketplace offered by Amazon. We build scalable and extensible frameworks which allow for many teams at Amazon to innovate within the Buying Experience in a federated manner.
The ideal candidate is a creative, demonstrated leader with superior software development abilities across a global product base. You should have excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills as well as an ability to get things delivered. You are also a champion of engineering excellence: you raise the bar on architecture, predictable quality, maintainability, performance, security and all the other things that make great software great.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will participate in all parts of the software development process, from collaborating with customers on design to executing that design in a scalable and extensible way. You will have the opportunity to solve hard computer science problems and help the business every day. You will develop, lead and grow a team of highly talented engineers while operating and maintaining availability these mission critical Tier1 systems.
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
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