Job Description

• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
• Experience in partnering with product and program management teams

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  7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
• 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
• 3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Job summary Join us as we reinvent the books purchase experience of millions of customer across worldwide. The Amazon Books Purchase and Payments Experience team is looking for an experienced software development manager who is passionate about developing challenging and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and building a team and product from scratch. You will be leading a team of engineers who work on tier 1 services, workflows, payments, ordering and AWS Systems . Expect to be challenged! The ideal candidate will have an established background building and managing large scale systems, great communication skills, a proven track record of building best-in-class engineering teams, and the ability to innovate and deliver in a fast paced environment. This person will also be responsible for ensuring various system-level and business-level SLAs are met, while maintaining an unrelenting focus on quality, throughput and innovation. This person will have regular interactions with various internal business-owners, external publishers/institutes to help understand priorities of tasks/projects, handling system issues and managing communication across all stakeholders. Key job responsibilities You are a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and who has a track record of building cohesive and inclusive teams that deliver results. You also love growing individuals and are invested in the success of each member of your team. You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, partnering with peers and stakeholders to solve challenging business and technical problems. You have a solid customer focus and advocate for their needs in product development, roadmap prioritization, requirements and design reviews, and in operational support. You have a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile development processes. You pave the way for innovation and know how to think big and invent and simplify. This role requires creative engineering and collaboration with your team. As a technical leader, you understand the technology your team owns, are willing to dive deep in to technical details, and can provide feedback and technical guidance to your team on design and architecture decisions. You collaborate with technical leaders and senior developers across the org to build scalable, distributed systems.

• The ideal candidate is a business and tech-savvy, analytical manager with a verifiable track record of managing and delivering enterprise projects on time and within budget.
• Deep hands-on technical experience
• Excellent project management skills.
• Ability to design software that can run in the cloud and handle Amazon-scale traffic
• Quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements
• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally
• Exceptional stakeholder relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements of underlying feature requests, recommend alternate technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
• Ability to participate in code reviews and mentor developers on software patterns and best practices
• Experience with the Scrum methodology