Software Development Manager, Amazon Payment Products

If you can think big and want to join a fast moving team breaking new ground at Amazon we would like to speak with you!

Our mission is to develop the most customer centric cobranded credit cards in the world. We innovate on behalf of our customers by partnering with business, financial partners and internal teams in Amazon. We engineer business solutions to help our customers get unrivalled value out of their cards on the Amazon websites.

Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. The business requires creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus.

• Hire, motivate, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team, providing them with appropriate opportunities to succeed in their career objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work effectively with product managers and software engineers on other Commerce Platform teams to ensure the successful delivery of features.
• Ensure timely execution of key organizational goals and customer launches by removing blockers and reducing execution risks.
• Work closely with the leadership team to provide input on OP1, roadmaps, and strategic discussions.
• Develop the long-term strategy for your programs and translate that into an achievable road map/action plan
• Be deeply involved with engineers to architect and develop the best technical designs and approaches.
• Build operational excellence to reduce lead times and maintain the operations of critical services.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Clearly communicate technical decisions and progress to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

• Exhibits excellent judgment
• Hires and develops great people
• Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
• Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
• Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
• Strong results orientation
• Thinks big

A day in the life

• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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