Manager, Software Development , Fulfillment Optimization

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RRSP

DPSP

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon's Fulfillment Optimization team in Vancouver is seeking a Software Development Manager to build and lead a high-performance software group delivering highly scalable, low-latency distributed services.

You will partner with business teams to define technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and drive architecture across SOA and microservices while ensuring reliability and on-call readiness. Based in Vancouver, this role shapes the software roadmap and engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years designing or architecting large-scale systems.
• 8+ years leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
• Knowledge of the full software/hardware/networks life cycle, including standards, reviews, build, testing, and operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of software engineers, setting technical direction and high engineering standards.
• Mentor and develop engineers through career growth and technical advancement.
• Manage team resources, hiring, and organizational planning.
• Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, highly distributed, real-time systems core to Amazon's supply chain.
• Enforce guidelines and best practices across the full software development lifecycle.
• Partner with product, program management, and other engineering teams to define and execute roadmaps.
• Collaborate with leaders, researchers, and data engineers to design optimization solutions.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and maintain docs.
• Participate in on-call rotation as part of standard engineering responsibilities.
• Operate in an agile environment prioritizing high-impact work with reliability.

Skills

People management

Software development leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-based services

SOA / microservices

Latency optimization

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Manager, Software Development , Fulfillment Optimization

The Fulfillment Optimization (FO) Team within Supply Chain Optimization Technologies Team (SCOT) is a critical part of the fulfillment process at Amazon. We track inventory for millions of items, manage fulfillment options, and orchestrate the fulfillment process once a customer places an order. Our software and systems are scaled to operate world-wide at sub-second latency, by processing high volume, real-time transactions on top of robust, highly distributed, asynchronous compute infrastructure. Our systems enable delivery of anything, anywhere.

We are hiring a Software Development Manager to build out and lead our software team in Vancouver. In this highly visible site role, you will partner with business teams to design and document requirements, and develop technical strategies and a software roadmap for delivery of features. We're seeking an experienced technical leader and software development manager with a proven track record in leading teams building highly-scalable, cloud-based distributed services with millisecond latency requirements. You should have deep expertise in Service Oriented Architecture, microservices, and both relational and non-relational databases. Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, driving technical strategy, and delivering large-scale projects is essential.

Check out this short video for more on SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot

Key job responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of software engineers, setting technical direction and maintaining high standards of engineering excellence
• Mentor and develop engineers through career growth and technical advancement
• Manage team resources, hiring, and organizational planning
• Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, highly distributed, real-time systems that are core to managing Amazon's supply chain.
• Enforce professional software engineering guidelines and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Partner with product, program management, and other engineering teams to define and execute technical roadmaps
• Work closely with senior leaders, researchers, and data engineers across multiple teams to design and implement supply chain optimization solutions
• Gather and analyze business requirements, translate them into technical specifications
• Maintain technical documentation and recommend improvements to development and system standards
• Participate in on-call rotation as part of standard engineering responsibilities
• Operate in an agile environment, prioritizing high-impact work while maintaining exceptional reliability standards

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.