Amazon Software Development Manager Amazon 

United States, Virginia 

205570906

Key job responsibilities
As Software Development Manager you will build an engineering team responsible for delivering significant features, test framework, across this new automotive shopping initiative. You will work directly with product management to define requirements and apply your technical expertise and leadership skills to organize and guide your team to solve difficult software problems in a fast-paced environment. You’ll work with your team to create and execute technical goals, roadmaps and vision that deliver amazing customer experiences and inspire your engineers to build innovative, high-quality and operationally excellent software and systems. You will lead the technical planning, coordination, architecture, and implementation of multiple programs across our new automotive shopping initiative. In addition, providing support and guidance to all (SDE/SDET/QAEs) in building and extending automation coverage by developing test scripts and utilities that enable the testers and developers, and driving the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies.A day in the life

- 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
- Looking for current or prior experience developing robust automation framework(s) that support Functional, Performance as well as API level testing.
- Prior SDET experience is a PLUS

- 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