Software Development Manager, Unified Paying Experience

The Unified Payments Experience team as part of Amazon Payment Team s vision is to delight our customers with the best payment experience in the world! To achieve this vision, we are in search of a talented technical leader and craftsman who builds robust software that scales as well as client-facing features which are intuitive and simple to use.

Our team takes a world view of payments for all of Amazon and builds highly scalable and seamless payment experiences for our global customers. This focus on customer and geography requires working on different technologies and back-end platform systems in order to meet the needs of our customers. Our systems are highly available and guarantee that our customer s orders are never lost and processed even when downstream services are down. As a technology leader will have a chance to understand and influence Amazons Payment Stack across Retail and Digital business.

You are a technical leader and craftsman with a proven track record of successful delivery. You are someone who will enjoy the challenge of working on complex and highly disparate technologies - from front-end Android development to back-end highly distributed systems. You are interested in high growth career opportunity and enjoy building software that brings smiles to our customers.

We are seeking an innovative, results-oriented Manager of Software Development. As Manager of Software Development for the Unified Payments Experience team, you will be responsible for leading a team in design, development, test and deployment of the payment experiences for various business lines. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer facing experience, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, a proven ability to grow and develop a team and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:
- Own the roadmap of the services that enable faster delivery of payment experience to our customers
- Document and present strategies to senior management.
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
- Management of departmental resources, hiring, mentoring, enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class product development team.
- Work closely with the engineers and product managers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.
- Report on status of development, quality, operations and system performance to leadership.

The ideal candidate will be a leader, quick learner and be able to work independently. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment where time to hit market is super critical. The candidate will need to balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions. - 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 livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems