Amazon Software Development Manager Global Talent Management & Compensation GTMC 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

783758246

As a Software Development Manager, you will lead a group of engineers responsible for building front-end experiences and back-end services that support our 3 year vision of delivering an intelligent consumer-grade experience to manage our global worldwide talent. You will be playing a pivotal role in evolving our current product experience and its service layer into a task-based experience that implements a modern UI and intelligent services in order to help Amazon employees around the world to grow their career.As the ideal candidate you will be experienced in managing a team of software engineers, and technical program managers. You will have a proven track record of shipping complex software solutions through an agile methodology. You will have the ability to dive deep into the understanding of problems in order to help your team make the right technical decisions for the product and the business. You will have a proven track record of managing through others and developing the career of your direct reports. You will also be a strong communicator and will have proven abilities in managing through ambiguous situations and communicating to VP level. #techleaderSpecific responsibilities include the following:- Build and grow your organization in Seattle.
- Define and drive your product development strategy.
- Architect and deliver intelligent services enabling GTM's talent management vision.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager, you will lead a group of engineers responsible for building front-end experiences and back-end services that support our 3 year vision of delivering an intelligent consumer-grade experience to manage our global worldwide talent. You will be playing a pivotal role in evolving our current product experience and its service layer into a task-based experience that implements a modern UI and intelligent services in order to help Amazon employees around the world to grow their career.
A day in the life
After standups, you will find yourself either syncing with product teams on roadmap and priority discussions, sitting with your TPM and Sr. SDE on a technical design for an upcoming feature, or working with other Sr. Technical leaders on operational excellence.

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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