Software Development Manager, Books Detail Page

Amazon; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global leader in e-commerce is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a team in building critical customer experiences. You will oversee the technical direction while ensuring operational excellence and team development. The ideal candidate should possess strong leadership and software engineering skills. This role offers the opportunity to drive innovative solutions in a dynamic environment.

Formación

• Knowledge of engineering practices for full software development life cycle.
• Experience in leading multi-tier web services development.
• Experience managing engineers.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers.
• Own the technical roadmap and decisions for your team's area.
• Drive hiring to build a strong engineering culture.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Software engineering practices

Technical roadmap ownership

Team development

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Scale at Amazon is, well, really big. As a Software Development Manager in the Books Detail Page team, you'll lead a team of talented engineers building critical customer experiences. You'll be responsible for the technical direction, team development, and operational excellence of your team while contributing to the broader organizational strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers, fostering technical excellence and career growth
• Own the technical roadmap and architecture decisions for your team's area of responsibility
• Drive hiring and team development to build a strong engineering culture
• Balance operational excellence with new feature development
• Partner with product and business teams to define and execute technical strategy
• Ensure delivery of high-quality software solutions that meet customer needs

A day in the life

As an SDM, you'll focus on both technical leadership and people management. Your day includes mentoring engineers, reviewing technical designs, and ensuring operational health of your systems. You'll participate in planning sessions, conduct 1:1s with team members, and collaborate with other leaders to align on technical direction. You'll spend time on hiring, team development, and ensuring your team has what they need to succeed.

About the team

Books Detail Page is the cornerstone of Amazon's Books eCommerce funnel. After successfully addressing technical debt, we're now in an exciting phase of customer-focused innovation. Our charter comprises three teams working together to create compelling features that help customers make informed decisions about their book purchases. We own the entire page experience and are passionate about building features that enhance the book discovery and evaluation process.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
• Experience managing engineers
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience in engineering

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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