About the position
Our mission is to build and deploy best-in-class tools to improve the selling partner experience and accelerate selling partner growth across Amazon stores. Internally, our tools are used on a daily basis to make our teammates' jobs easier. Our customers are Amazon's vendors, as well as our global Retail teams including vendor managers, customer service managers, buying specialists and other teams that support our vendor relationships. Our remit is expanding on multiple dimensions as we increase our feature set on behalf of North America Stores and add new WW marketplaces. To enable this expansion, we are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to provide technical leadership, directly manage a team of talented Software Development Engineers, and work closely with a team of product managers and other partners and stakeholders in the US and abroad. We are looking for a passionate and innovative Software Development Engineer who loves solving hard problems and can tackle the challenges faced by our customers. The ideal candidate has an established track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams and launching new features and experiences with demonstrable impact. If that sounds like you, you bring deep technical ability and excellent engineering practices and communication skills, and you thrive in highly collaborative, creative, analytical, and fast-paced environment, we would like to have you apply. Strong communication and writing skills are essential, as well as a strong focus on operational and engineering excellence. While you bring strong viewpoints, you also have a track record of successful collaboration across a wide range of partners and functions.
Responsibilities
- Drive our overall strategy by defining product features, architecting scalable systems, and spearheading best practices for quality product development.
- Solve complex algorithmic problems and build services that can handle millions of requests globally.
- Leverage advanced technologies and AI to infer insights from various data sources, providing the most relevant suggestions to our customers.
- Collaborate with top-notch software developers, applied scientists, seasoned product managers, and creative designers to raise the bar on customer experience.
- Have significant influence over both long-term strategic needs and short-term tactical wins, balancing trade-offs between them.
- Guide team members in creating robust, scalable designs and lead processes that improve quality and reduce operational load.
- Participate in people development and hiring, ensuring we're building the right team for our long-term needs.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Benefits
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other benefits
