Job Description

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Job summary
Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable Financial systems that support Amazon's current and future growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation leveraging the scalability and innovation with Amazon's AWS cloud services? Do you have a passion for ensuring a positive customer experience? This is the job for you.

The Amazon Finance Automation Technology Team is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to play a key role in managing a team to support our Global Corporate Procurement charter by building the next generation of distributed, scalable financial systems. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, relishes working with data, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about leading a team driving next generation of scalable and fast distributed systems on industry leading technologies.

A Software Development Manager (SDM) at Amazon works on real world problems on a global scale, owns their systems end to end and influences the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions of customers around the world. You can expect to design flexible and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing by utilizing your skills in data structures, algorithms, software development, Machine Learning, and object oriented programming. Coming to Amazon gives you the opportunity to work on a development team in one of our many rapidly growing organizations.

Along with complex problems to solve, we provide you a world class work environment and a chance to work with the industry most talented team members in the data engineering and software development space. You will lead on how to design, build, test, and implement scalable solutions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of software development engineering
• Strong People Management experience managing a team of 6+ engineers. The candidate should have first hand experience on performance management, career growth and development of their directs
• Curious, self-motivated & a self-starter with a 'can do attitude'. Comfortable working in fast paced dynamic environment.
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language such as Java, C++ or C#
• Experience designing and operating big data warehouses
• Good to have experience working on AWS stack
• Clear thinker with superb problem-solving skills to prioritize and stay focused on big needle movers
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrate ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Demonstrate ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Experience mentoring software engineers and influencing best practices within your team.
• Experience in dealing with ambiguous and undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
• Experience with AWS

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.