“[Amazon Local] is growing very rapidly. I'm excited about the opportunity there. I'd classify it as one of the seeds that we plant, and see a number of years later if it grows into a big tree. Right now, I'm very optimistic.” - Jeff Bezos, May 2013 Shareholder Meeting
Be at the center of Amazon innovation with Amazon Local, the marketplace which connects customers with restaurants, entertainment, travel, services, and more in their communities. This rapidly growing business within Amazon offers a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment.
We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to hire and manage a team focused on building the Amazon Local Business Portal Platform. The Business Portal is the gateway for local merchants to use Amazon Local services for onboarding, managing their Listings, Redemption tools, Reporting and CRM tools. This team will be responsible for building the Business Portal UI and the backend services related to Merchant Registration & Onboarding, Payments, CRM & Merchant Success tools. A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing large scale distributed systems, strong technical ability, great communication skills, experience in hiring from scratch, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Be at the center of Amazon innovation with Amazon Local, the marketplace which connects customers with restaurants, entertainment, travel, services, and more in their communities. This rapidly growing business within Amazon offers a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment.
We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to hire and manage a team focused on building the Amazon Local Business Portal Platform. The Business Portal is the gateway for local merchants to use Amazon Local services for onboarding, managing their Listings, Redemption tools, Reporting and CRM tools. This team will be responsible for building the Business Portal UI and the backend services related to Merchant Registration & Onboarding, Payments, CRM & Merchant Success tools. A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing large scale distributed systems, strong technical ability, great communication skills, experience in hiring from scratch, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define the technical vision and roadmap working closely with Product Management.
- Hiring, mentoring and managing a world-class software development team.
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments; manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach. Be a hands-on technical leader and contributor.
- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
- 8+ years of experience in software development
- 4+ years experience hiring and managing software developers
- Software development experience in modern technologies such as OOP, Java, C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Linux/UNIX, AJAX, RDBMS, XML
- Master’s degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, or related discipline
- Background building systems to support 3rd-party merchants and partnerships
- Deep hands-on technical expertise
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong business and technical vision and judgment
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience leading multiple teams and managing managers
- A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time
- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
- Effective track record of coordinating multiple Agile development teams
- Demonstrated track record of hiring, developing and retaining exceptional technical talent
- Exhibits strong leadership qualities including excellent judgment, relentlessly high standards, can dive deep and remain in touch with business details, drives innovation in their teams, invokes passion in others, can think big, and delivers results