Job Description

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience, managing engineers and managers
• Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience with managing and building multiple teams simultaneously - leading through leaders
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and project planning/execution including estimating and scheduling.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across all engineering disciplines.
• Maturity, discernment, and demonstrated ability to lead and influence others.
• Driven, inventive, and able to deliver results with minimal direction.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with developers, business owners, and senior business leaders.
• High sense of ownership.

Job summary Love to work in Digital Advertising; one of the biggest revenue drivers for internet giants of the world and Amazon’s fastest-growing business with an explosive growth? Love to conceptualise and build applications from grounds-up? Like to develop real-time, distributed, large-scale, and modern front-end applications? Like to interact with worldwide advertising customers to build systems that makes advertising and it's functions automated and frictionless? Interested in being part of a worldwide Advertising Customer Experience team? Then, Software Development team that builds Tier-1 Advertising Experience wants you! Amazon Advertising is looking for an entrepreneurial Senior Software Development Manager who shares Amazon Advertising’s passion for building and delivering a global, scaleable, extensible, and secure platform that singularly manages the Sourcing, Storage, Supply, Aggregation, Processing, Reporting of billions of clicks and impressions across multiple Advertising Billing, Budgeting, Financial, Front-End and Payments services. You will invent and ship software that directly impacts our end customer experience. You'll develop your team of highly motivated and talented multi-functional builders (front and backend developers) who can collaborate with product managers, technical specialists, and principals across the company. You will participate in defining the technology roadmap for our advertising billing and payments strategy, and shape building technology tools that can disrupt the billing industry. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, frankly, haven’t been solved at scale before - anywhere. You will encounter challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. We’re looking for entrepreneurs who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, can demonstrate a high degree of ownership, and want to have fun while they make history and craft beautiful products. A successful candidate will have strong technical skills, and a history of growing their talent, and ability go hands-on with their technologies to identify the real problems you're solving. Written and verbal communication in this role are critical: you will author narratives that will be consumed by Amazonians at all levels, including executive leadership. Key Technical Challenges: Distributed and Scalable Architecture: Looking at advertising international expansion and business growth plans for next year, we expect this traffic to grow 10X in near future. Billing and Budgeting system should be easily scalable to manage exponential increase in traffic and extensible to support different business needs. High Availability: Downtime of Billing and Budgeting system can cause a huge loss in revenue and loss of business opportunity for our advertisers. High Availability architecture is to make sure that the system is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime. Precision: Every click or impression needs to be counted, accounted, invoiced, and charged in near real-time, without any exception. It impacts both revenue and regulatory compliance. We need to build generic and extensible reconcilers for any anomaly detection and raising an appropriate alarm. Tags: Sr SDM; Senior Manager; SDM; Sr SDM; Manager; Sr Manager; Software Development Manager; Sr Software Development Manager; Senior SDM

• Advanced Degree (MS/ME/PhD) in computer science or related discipline or 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise.
• A passion for people management and mentorship.
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong business and technical vision.
• Experience in managing managers.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems.
• Project management experience with cross functional geographically distributed teams.
• Familiarity with Pay for performance Ad model and the Internet advertisement industry.
• 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

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