DESCRIPTION

Amazon Selling Partner Services team drives the Selling On Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell on Amazon’s Marketplaces. More than half of shipments for Amazon customers are generated from this business. The team is focused on building a technology platform that will support the explosive business growth in existing markets, streamline the business for Amazon and the Selling partners and launch business in new markets and establish a fair marketplace.

As a Manager here, you will lead your team of high performing engineers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize the platforms that processes these business events. You will interface with several teams including FBA, AGS, AGL, B2B, Brand Builder, Paid Services, Amazon Payments, Amazon India, and more. Our mission is to provide a world-class customer experience using scalable and robust software, so the challenges and opportunities span both the business and technical realms.

A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing high volume and highly available services, strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.
Your day-to-day responsibilities:
Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations
Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems
Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning
Provide thought leadership and establish technical vision for the team

Mentor and grow super star SDEs to take on increasingly higher responsibilities

This is a role suitable for someone who wants to influence across organizations, work on high profile, high impact initiatives that impact Amazon’s bottom line.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of relevant engineering experience
3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
Experience in partnering with product and program management teams

Position Requirements:

5+ years hands-on software development experience with proven track record of delivering results
3+ years software team management experience
BS in Computer Science, a strong background in data structures, algorithms
Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
Proficiency with the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages and familiarity with emerging open-source technologies
Excellent judgment, organizational and problem solving skills: technical, project, and personnel
Exceptional skill in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Success delivering products/services in a high-growth environment, exhibiting strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous customer-focused problems
High attention to detail with proven ability to juggle multiple, competing priorities simultaneously and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Ability to take raw product requirements and create software architectures and designs to bring them to life.
Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work successfully with teams across the organization, including Engineering, Program Management, Quality Assurance, and Senior Leadership
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and opinions.