Amazon Software Development Manager Discovery Tech 

United States, New York, New York 

480444855

Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and grow a team of software engineers working on complex discovery and recommendation systems
• Manage engineers to plan, design, and deliver complex systems and architecture improvements
• Create vision, technical strategies, and roadmaps for multiple workstreams
• Drive the delivery of customer-facing features that support business objectives
• Architect scalable systems that power personalized shopping experiences across events, gifting, and collections
• Manage operations, scaling, performance, and availability of services
• Establish key engineering and operational mechanisms to ensure team success
• Own all business and operational metrics for your team's software
• Collaborate with senior engineers to develop technology and architectural roadmaps
• Partner with product, science, business, and technology teams across Amazon to drive alignment and make high-judgment decisions

- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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 delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- 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
- Experience in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between