Software Development Manager, AB Mobile

Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion dollar global business. At Amazon Business, a fast-growing startup passionate about building solutions, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech & retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations thrive. At Amazon Business, we strive to be the most recognized and preferred strategic partner for smart business buying. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries. Unlock your career potential.

The Amazon Business Catalog Tech team is responsible for classifying items at scale. Our customers expect high quality classifications to be able to prevent purchasing undesirable items, so the services we develop need to be reliable and scalable across Amazon’s catalog of products. We work with Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, and Catalog Specialists to deliver high quality solutions to our customers.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) who is capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, and have a strong will to get things done! An SDM at Amazon works on real world problems on a global scale. You thrive in a fast-moving team environment where you are able to juggle complex dependencies and requirements while producing optimal solutions. Ambiguity and creativity are both expected and the norm.

We work in an entrepreneurial environment and deliver value incrementally and frequently. We are still in the early stages , so you get the opportunity to be part of ideation stage and deciding the strategy for our growth. If you are a candidate with a strong sense of ownership, passion and drive to delight customers, come join us!

Key job responsibilities

Some info about this opportunity:

- Building a world-class team by hiring exceptional talent, coaching and developing engineers, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar.

- The role has high potential growth that has opportunity to work with Sr. Engineering leadership (PE, Sr. SDE and Sr. Managers) across AB, consumer Catalog, Supplier, and GTM teams

- The scope of the work spreads across multiple portfolio of products and services. It gives opportunity to get broader knowledge and experience of Amazon (buying experience, seller experience, Customer Acquisition, Account Management etc).

- Thinking big and working with leadership team, business stakeholders and software engineering teams to define vision, strategy and requirements.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management 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

- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience

- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience

Preferred qualifications

- 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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