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Amazon Senior Software Development Manager, SWA, Amzn Shipping-Prd & Tech in Hyderabad, India
Description
Amazon’s global fulfillment network enables any merchant to ship items that are ordered on Amazon to any place on earth. There is a complex network of ways in which items move between vendor locations, Amazon warehouses, and customer locations as well as several intermediate locations through which packages travel before reaching the customer. With a scale of millions of packages, each with different attributes and delivery requirements, what results is a highly dense graph of nodes.
We have built a highly respected software engineering team which is focused on solving complex problems in worldwide transportation using workflows, optimization algorithms, and machine learning systems. These are large-scale distributed systems handling millions of packages being shipped through the Amazon logistics network.
We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager with expertise, ambition, and passion in solving difficult problems.
Key job responsibilities
Hire, mentor and lead software development teams including leaders.
Lead design, implementation, and deployment of highly distributed, large scale services.
Play a critical role in the broad business planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements. Help form long-term technical and business strategy and goals.
Understand business context to decisions made within and across groups.
Define team's mission and vision.
Develop a mindset to focus on innovation, user experience, and disciplined engineering.
Set goals and build mechanisms to track progress.
Own all aspects of formal and informal customer interactions including managing expectation.
Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach. Be a hands-on technical leader and contributor.
Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.
Work with globally distributed team.
Basic Qualifications
10+ years of engineering experience
5+ years of engineering team management experience
10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
Preferred Qualifications
Experience partnering with product and program management teams
Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications