Software Dev Manager - L6, Payee Management

Interested in building the next generation of financial systems that can handle billions of dollars in transactions? Interested in building highly scalable next-generation systems that could utilize Amazon Cloud at scale? We manage massive data volume and complex business rules in a highly distributed and service-oriented architecture, a world-class information collection and delivery challenge. In Amazon Finance Automation, we build products that ensure accurate and on-time payments for millions of Amazon vendors, including publishers, app developers, game developers, marketplace sellers, associates, and others. Our challenge is to deliver the software systems that accurately capture and process the huge volume of financial transactions that are generated each day as millions of customers make purchases, as thousands of vendors and partners are paid, as inventory moves in and out of warehouses, as commissions are calculated, and as taxes are collected in multiple jurisdictions worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
1. Build strategic roadmaps by driving consensus among product and tech teams; be a catalyst in multiple feature prioritization and fast-track decision-making that impact the create, grow, and deprecate stages of the product lifecycle.
2. Establish mechanisms that promote agility and engineering excellence through continuous iterations till you achieve optimal outcomes.
3. Lead a team of software engineers responsible for the design, development, and testing of the Amazon Finance Automation Solution
4. Advise and consult with other SDM s and Senior Engineers on design and architecture
5. Provide support and coverage across regions while organizing and contributing to meetings representing your projects and programs effectively.
6. Act as a subject matter expert by synthesizing the problems and the solutions into a simple and consumable manner, and communicate effectively to a cross-functional audience.
7. Hire and mentor software engineers and actively participate in their career development
8. Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems