Software Development Manager, Amazon Payment Products

Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC - K03; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a dynamic team within their Payments team. The role involves overseeing engineering projects, managing a talented team, and driving strategic objectives towards innovative payment solutions while ensuring operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
• 8+ years leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.

Responsibilities

• Hire, motivate, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Manage day-to-day activities of the team within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.

Skills

Team Management

Project Management

Strategic Planning

Communication

Technical Leadership

Job description

Amazon’s Payments team is looking for a passionate, results-oriented inventive Software Development Manager. As the development manager, you'll lead a talented and nimble team of engineers. Responsibilities include direct management of 8+ engineers, process and quality of service improvements, strategic planning, project management for software within the team, and management of resources across teams. Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. The business requires creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus.

Key job responsibilities

• Hire, motivate, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team, providing them with appropriate opportunities to succeed in their career objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams : Work effectively with product managers and software engineers on other Commerce Platform teams to ensure the successful delivery of features.
• Ensure timely execution of key organizational goals and customer launches by removing blockers and reducing execution risks.
• Work closely with the leadership team to provide input on OP1, roadmaps, and strategic discussions.
• Develop the long-term strategy for your programs and translate that into an achievable road map / action plan
• Be deeply involved with engineers to architect and develop the best technical designs and approaches.
• Build operational excellence to reduce lead times and maintain the operations of critical services.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile / Scrum environment
• Clearly communicate technical decisions and progress to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders :

• Exhibits excellent judgment
• Hires and develops great people
• Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
• Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
• Expects and requires innovation of her / his team
• Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
• Strong results orientation
• Thinks big

A day in the life

As an SDM in Amazon Payment Products org, you will lead a high-performing engineering team, collaborate with cross-functional team of PMs, TPMs, Designers. You will also directly work with external finance partners and deliver the best-in-class payment products for Amazon customers.

About the team

At Amazon Payment Products (APP), we delight our customers with rewards, credit, installments and the simplicity to buy across borders. Amazon Payment Products serves tens of millions of customers worldwide through a global portfolio of products, delighting them with best-in-class rewards, easy access to credit as well as the simplicity to sell or buy cross-border on Amazon in their local currency. The global portfolio of products APP currently negotiates, builds, and manages includes Co-brand Credit Cards, Private Label Credit Cards, Shop with Points, Installments (Buy Now, Pay Later), and Amazon Currency Converter for Sellers and Buyers. Under Amazon’s long-term commitment to innovating on behalf of customers, APP constantly seeks to launch new payment and financial services products, features and programs worldwide which make shopping on Amazon ever more rewarding and convenient for customers.

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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