We are looking for an experienced software development manager who is interested in building the next generation of online payment system that supports numerous countries and payment methods with high bar for availability and security.
In this role, you will be responsible for delivering some of our most strategic technical projects, deliver large scale systems, design new software systems at the cutting edge of distributed storage and database technologies and have a significant revenue growth and bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position.
As a Software Development Manager, you will be part of the larger technical leadership community at Amazon. This community forms the backbone of the company, plays a critical role in the broad business planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements, influences our long-term technical and business strategy, helps us hire talented team of engineers and ultimately enables us to deliver innovative new solutions rapidly.
Key job responsibilities
- Work closely with software developers and managers to architect and develop the best technical designs, architectures and implementations.
- Develop monthly, quarterly and yearly strategy and roadmaps for the team based on project priorities and project benefit.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
- Work with Product and Program Managers to develop and evolve the vision and strategy for the team.
- Use Agile principles to run the development lifecycle for team’s applications and services.
- Manage, execute and communicate project plans and delivery commitments.
- Staff, mentor, enhance and maintain a best-of-class software development teams.
A day in the life
- Work on solving all the Payment customer experience problems with new feature launch, Availability, Scale, Security and Compliance WW.
- We have experienced Sr. SDEs and PEs to guide and help build solutions for customers and solve ambiguous problems with you.
About the team
Payment Organization provides a set of backend Tier 1 and Non-Tier 1 services to different businesses with development centers spanned across Bangalore, Seattle and Vancouver. Payments is a critical organization for Amazon as order will be shipped or Subscription will continue only after Payment is successful. Payments support backend API and services for all 50+ Business of Amazon including Retail ALC, Prime Subscription, Installment business and Payment gateway for Amazon Pay. Payment Services support World Wide Payment Transactions starting from NA to JP including IN, Middle East and EU.
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- 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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