Software Development Manager - Delivery Experience Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

The Customer Delivery Experience team believes that the advantage Amazon has on its competitors is the speed, cost, and delivery convenience - that we can provide. Are you interested in taking a front-seat in the innovative technology that powers Amazon's award-winning Delivery Experience?

Our team, which owns the Amazon.com Your Orders page, is looking for a new Software Development Manager. See for yourself: http://amazon.com/orders . This is a great opportunity to get closer to our customers, and innovate in the delivery experience.

You will be responsible for leading the team to our near-term goals and updating the mission for our team and our space. Development team responsibility will be for the creation of UI, services, code quality, and delivery. You will be responsible for scaling and adapting this system to future requirements and maintaining flexibility to meet the business' rapidly evolving needs. You will manage a team of engineers in delivering critical and highly-visible features for Amazon.com customers.

A successful candidate will have a history of designing and building large-scale software solutions, leading teams in project scoping and planning, and delivering to schedule.

Key Responsibilities:

* Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed project plans and schedules
* Balance of near term deliverables with long term investments
* Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle
* Delivery of quality applications on time and on budget
* Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
* Management of departmental resources, staffing, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
* Recruit and hire senior level engineers, develop and manage the team, and conduct performance reviews
* Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
* Meet with business partners to gather requirements and communicate capabilities
* Create metrics and report on status of product quality to management, and support product and client teams