Software Development Manager, WWGST catalog team

The Challenge: WWGST catalog team is looking for Software Development Managers who are passionate and innovative that have a heart for Nourishing People and the Planet to join our World wide grocery catalog team. This team will be tackling some of our most complex and challenging Supply Chain and In-store projects and will deliver innovative technical solutions to advance the retail grocery industry.

The Team: We are a grocery catalog team with a vision to converge and have a common catalog across the different cross banners( Fresh, Go and WFM) .

The Role: Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment. As a Software Development Manager, you will help tackle a diverse landscape of business, technical & team challenges. We are an early-stage initiative, and you will play an active role in translating business requirements into concrete systems and prototyping concepts, and working with technology leaders within the team and across the business.

The Work: You will design, develop and deploy reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale. You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Java, Linux, and AWS services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will have the opportunity to redefine an industry while working with different teams across Amazon and Whole Foods Market. Along the way, we guarantee that you ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on many people. Most importantly you ll be contributing to our Higher Purpose of Nourishing People and the Planet!

Key Attributes and Responsibilities
You are passionate about defining and creating brand new products and services that will radically improve customer experiences in key strategic areas
You are able to translate business objectives into technical solutions understanding how it will impact and align with overall strategy
You love to explore unknown territory and invent simple, beautiful solutions to complex business and usability problems, sometimes with no clear precedent in today s world
You are highly collaborative, with a proven record of working closely with your team to influence outcomes and propose well-informed new directions
You have great interpersonal communication skills. You re good at finding new and better ways of communicating and sharing your work, and are always fine-tuning your work for impact and transparency
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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