Software Development Manager, Checkout Experience

At Amazon, whether a shopper embarks on their journey, Checkout serves as their ultimate destination. Every week, tens of millions of individuals traverse our innovative customer interfaces and systems, all leading to the joy of their purchases. Our mission is to become the most trusted and delightfully convenient purchasing experience on Earth. We wield a remarkable potential for influencing customers and businesses, owning mission-critical distributed systems infrastructure and frameworks that thousands of engineers worldwide employ on the Amazon retail website. We have tailored our operational models to suit well-supported, follow-the-sun on-call arrangements, working seamlessly with our counterparts across the globe. Our commitment extends to our people and our software, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

We are on the lookout for a software development manager who harbors a profound concern for our customers and takes immense pride in the technical and business impact of their work. We extend to you the opportunity to construct multi-tiered, low-latency, highly resilient distributed systems on a grand scale. You will play a pivotal role in crafting solutions that profoundly enhance the shopping experience, handling vast data volumes, delivering lightning-fast response times, and simplifying the checkout process to a remarkable degree. You will help drive innovation that simplifies the checkout experience for our customers, reduces the cost to serve for Amazon, removes friction from the checkout journey to enable more customers to complete their purchases effectively and nudges them on their next shopping journey. This holds critical significance for Amazons overall success, with the Checkout domain presenting significant challenges and opportunities.

The ideal candidate will establish a culture of operational excellence and innovation while demonstrating a comfort level in engaging with stakeholders at all levels, whether technical or non-technical. Moreover, the ability to think from a customers perspective and work in a reverse manner is of paramount importance. Join us and make a substantial impact in one of Amazon Retails most crucial domains!
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Bachelors degree