Amazon seeks an experienced, innovative, results-oriented Software Development Manager for Amazon Fashion mobile shopping. Amazon fashion is a fast growing business with customers who demand high quality mobile experiences. This role is for the engineering leader for the core software engineering team who are building next generation mobile shopping experiences for our customers worldwide on amazon.com.
This position owns the global vision and execution for development of the Amazon Fashion mobile shopping experiences in a highly agile environment. Our program team is comprised of developers, designers and product managers tasked with a singular goal to create THE world class and differentiated shopping experience for mobile shoppers. You will be a key member of this team, dedicated to our ongoing effort to launch best of breed fashion features worldwide. We prefer candidates who can thrive in a fast paced, high energy and fun work environment where we deliver value incrementally and frequently. We value highly technical, hands-on, data driven leaders who know their subject matters deeply and are willing to learn new areas.
Primary responsibilities:
This position owns the global vision and execution for development of the Amazon Fashion mobile shopping experiences in a highly agile environment. Our program team is comprised of developers, designers and product managers tasked with a singular goal to create THE world class and differentiated shopping experience for mobile shoppers. You will be a key member of this team, dedicated to our ongoing effort to launch best of breed fashion features worldwide. We prefer candidates who can thrive in a fast paced, high energy and fun work environment where we deliver value incrementally and frequently. We value highly technical, hands-on, data driven leaders who know their subject matters deeply and are willing to learn new areas.
Primary responsibilities:
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Work with business leaders to define product requirements
- Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations
- Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables
- Recruit, manage and grow a high potential team of Software Engineers
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience building successful production software systems
- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, C#, C++ and at least one script/Web programming (i.e. Perl, Mason, JavaScript)
- Strong skills in project planning & execution, problem solving. Ability to take a project from initial scoping requirements through actual launch and support of the project
- A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects
- 2+ years people management experience
- Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
- Experience building decoupled systems with rich user experience that can be built on a variety of platforms (mobile preferred) with a correspondingly complex backend with rich data services and business logic.
- Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazon’s business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables
- Strong business and technical vision