Software Development Manager Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Are you seeking a startup like environment where you can influence the vision, define a plan of execution, and help deliver the next generation of software systems that will support Amazon's fulfillment needs? Do greenfield projects challenge you?

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers the physical engine at the heart of Amazon. AFT builds and operates software, hardware, and processes that run the global network of fulfillment centers that move many millions of units of inventory, employ tens of thousands of people, and ensure that customers get what they want when we promised we would get it to them. We do this by building automated solutions to handle things that technology does well, while relying on people to handle things that humans do well.

We use innovative technologies to simplify the process by taking advantage of materials handling automation, machine vision, robotics, and machine learning. Our highly scalable distributed systems are designed to handle billions of transactions a year. We are seeking an innovative, intellectually curious, results-oriented technology leader who will be responsible for driving our product roadmap, software development and operations of our systems.

Responsibilities:

* Manage overall software development life-cycle
* Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments
* Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
* Work closely with Sr. engineers and Team Leaders to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
* Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
* Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization
* Interface with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
* Propose and implement new projects or recommend system improvements.
* Own all operational metrics and support
* Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon
* Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
* Set clear, measurable quality goals for an organization in a data-driven way

Personal traits not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

* Exhibits excellent judgment, are right a lot
* Hire and develop the best people
* Able to dive deep and never out of touch with the details of the business
* Strong results orientated approach.
* Thinks big and have a bias for Action
* Deal well with ambiguity