At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager in the Amazon Grocery Data and Tech.
As a Senior Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for leading multiple teams through rapidly evolving complex demands and own the product roadmap, design, development, testing, deployment and operations of multiple services, data products, and analytical solutions. As a manager or managers, you will hire and mentor tech managers, software engineers, data engineers, and business intelligence engineers, complete hands-on technical work and provide leadership on complex technical, business and operational problems. You will manage and be responsible for delivering some of our most strategic technology initiatives. You will design, develop and operate new, highly scalable software systems that support all of Amazon’s grocery businesses and have a significant impact on Amazon’s top-line and competitive position.
A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, strong business acumen and judgment, ability to define visionary, ground breaking products, ability to hire and lead a team, desire to have an industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast-moving environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact. They will define metrics to measure business performance and drive efficiency improvements.
About the team
Amazon Grocery Data and Technology (GDT) team is the central data team for Amazon Grocery, consisting of engineering teams (BIEs/DEs/SDEs). We are the direct owner of (a) Infrastructure and services used for reading, processing, reporting and enrichment of grocery data; (b) Productivity tools; (c) Reporting solutions for worldwide 1P and 3P customers across the following businesses: Amazon Fresh Grocery (AFG), Whole Foods Market (WFM), Amazon Go, Amazon Grocery Partners, etc.
- 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
- 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 establishing metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence
- Experience with creating & improving a variety of processes across product types & teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications