Amazon Software Development Manager Event Outfitters Engineering 

United States, Texas, Austin 

137027506

As a Software Development Manager you will work closely with a diverse and talented team of engineers and product managers to ideate, build, operate, and scale, impactful customer facing features across the full product development lifecycle. You will leverage your experience and unique skills to grow engineers individual careers, and deliver impactful projects to our customers. You are open to learning new skills, growing your career, being mentored, and mentoring others. You’ll collaborate with people and other Service Teams across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security. You’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.Our ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for working on behalf of customers, have a track record of on-time delivery of large scale projects, and have the ability to operate independently and autonomously. This individual will be able to understand complex problems and identify areas where they will need to have their team invest, to ensure they are able to support the anticipated growth and future requirements of the service. Maturity, judgment, communication skills, negotiation skills and influencing skills are all essential as you will interact with cross-functional teams worldwide.
Key job responsibilities
* Recruit, hire, mentor, and manage teams of software engineers.
* Foster career growth and a strong team culture.
* Interface with the product manager and internal customers to understand requirements, set priorities, and communicate direction and progress.
* Own the operational health of your team’s software
* Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver tech requirements on time and with a high-degree of precision and quality.
* Coordinate with stakeholders in other groups, drive alignment across multiple orgs on shared goals and initiatives
* Make long term org design decisions, architectural decisions.
* Help develop long-term business and technology strategies.
* Drive improvements in software engineering practices.
Austin, TX, USA

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 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
- 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