Amazon Software Development Manager 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

970014149

As an experienced Software Development manager, you have a passion for building quality software and solving hard problems with team of brilliant engineers. You will operate at all levels, driving the vision, architecture and implementation of complex technology initiatives and products, partnering with Product/Program Managers and a large Operations group to drive step change improvements in the products we offer our end customers and our associates. There is considerable innovation in this role as our ability to predict the needs of the sellers, vendors and brand, is critical to ensuring the highest usage of the product we build.Key job responsibilities
- Prioritize being a really great people manager. Building, motivating, rewarding and coaching a diverse team of Software Development Engineers is the most important part of this role. You will recruit and retain top talent and excel in day-to-day people and performance management tasks.- Contribute to architecture and design discussions for full stack software.- Help your team sort out technical and product requirements and priorities. Deliver product roadmap items and cross-team projects.

- 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