Manager, Software Development

Looking for a career at a company that seeks to be Earth’s most customer‑centric company? Interested in disrupting the B2B landscape? If so, meet Amazon Business. Our Amazon Business team is rapidly growing and we’re looking for a Manager, Software Development to be the technical lead in charge of launching a new business venture globally.

Amazon Business (AB) aims to become the most customer‑centric provider of products and procurement services for businesses and governments across the world. The AB Services team was established in Q2’22 as a key enabler of turnkey solutions that reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and free up bandwidth to focus on core business. Services are most critical to enabling AB customer deals.

The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of being able to both think big in developing something from scratch and dive deep looking around every corner to ensure we deliver a world‑class solution. All the while, this leader will have an extremely high bar on how we meet the needs of our varied customers.

You will need to thrive on delivering results in an ambiguous, fast‑paced environment. She will be a thought leader who can build new business models, address unmet customer needs and invent new solutions. This individual will lead a dedicated software development team to build a brand new solution for international business customers.

Key perks and opportunities

• The B2B market is estimated at $13.2T and AB has just started; the growth potential is tremendous.

• Amazon was a consumer focused company first; it doesn’t yet work well with Enterprise companies. This role provides a rare opportunity to be involved in understanding the end‑to‑end solution for how Amazon solves eCommerce at scale and then using that knowledge to shift the architecture to best enable Amazon Business.

• Opportunity to collaborate with diverse business and technical partners to shape our technology. You will be the voice of our international customers, driving technological innovation to create an unparalleled business procurement experience.

• This is not only a fast growing business, but also a very fast growing team. As a result, there is a great opportunity to quickly establish yourself as a leader and shape the minds, team dynamic, and technical growth of the engineers.

Key job responsibilities

• Usage of design patterns, re‑use and efficient coding best practices to deliver high‑quality work on tight schedules.

• Partner with offshore development team(s) for successful software delivery.

• Design and develop end‑to‑end solutions that enhance software architecture and automate solutions.

• Leverage cutting edge tech to implement solutions.

• Build reliable, high‑performance Web Services, APIs, Micro‑Services, Micro‑Frontends, and SDKs that improve customers’ experience.

• Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.

• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About the team

As a Software Dev Manager on AB Services team, you will join a highly technical and entrepreneurial team building applications to change the B2B e‑commerce segment. You will participate in the full development cycle, end‑to‑end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance. You will evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing technologies and tools, and you’ll coach and mentor junior development engineers.

We work in an entrepreneurial environment and deliver value incrementally and frequently. We are still in the early stages of development, so it is going to be Day1 everyday on the team!

Basic Qualifications

• 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 lifesite operations

• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

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