Software Development Manager, Amazon Creators Program

Amazon • New York, NY

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About The Position

The Creators organization at Amazon is looking for an experienced Software
Development Manager to lead one of our core engineering teams, and help us
re-imagine social shopping! We own the Associates and Influencer programs across
Amazon and our mission is to become the Earth’s most desired destination for
commerce creators across the world, and their content. We ensure a cohesive
experience for all creators, expand their opportunities to earn through
innovation, and launch experiences that reinforce their feeling of achievement.

As a Software Development Manager, you will lead an engineering team that
designs, develops, tests, and deploys new customer facing technology products.
We are looking for a highly motivated, top notch leader with both business and
technical acumen. You will have the opportunity to build, scale and shape the
direction of this business. This role requires deep technical expertise,
excellent leadership skills, and strong business judgment. You will be
responsible for services that can be deployed globally, delivering an
exceptional customer experience, provide thought leadership in a fast-paced
development environment, and partner with product management and senior leaders
to ensure the success of this program, while solving broad industry challenges.

If you enjoy dealing with high ambiguity, complexity and broad scope that will
be at the epicenter of Amazon's social shopping efforts, come join us!

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Lead E2E architecture, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of technology-focused tools and services.
• Provide leadership and innovation in the design and implementation of services to enable new products and services.
• Evaluate complex business and technical requirements, and communicate inherent risks and solutions to technical and non-technical business owners.
• Act as point of contact for communications dealing with project deliverables, setting the expectation, managing priorities, technologies, human factors and management issues.
• Establish consistence project management processes, standards and guidelines in the execution of program wide security efforts. Engage enterprise wide teams as needed with focus on results.
• Effectively hires, develops and manages performance

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed