Software Development Manager, Transact

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a team in the Transactional Storage and Config organization. This role involves driving architectural changes, managing data movement tools, and collaborating with various teams to enhance Amazon's software stack. The ideal candidate will have extensive engineering management experience and a strong technical background.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 8+ years in multi-tier web services development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of software developers.
• Drive architectural changes and data movement initiatives.
• Collaborate with product management and other teams.

Skills

Engineering practices

Team management

Software development

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

As a Software Development Manager in Transactional Storage and Config, you will work to enable the movement of critical Amazon data allowing business service workloads to operate regions of their choice. The end-state architecture will enable services to break region coupling while retaining the ability to keep critical business functions within a region. This architecture will improve customer latency through local affinity to compute resources and reduce the blast radius in case of region failures.

We are looking for a passionate, deeply technical, and results-oriented Software Development Manager to define and drive Transactional Data Movement initiatives, and drive fundamental architectural changes across the Amazon software stack to enable this vision.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of experienced software developers to design, develop, deploy, and support key features of the data movement tools.
- Lead the development of the data movement tools while supporting the current generation of the tools.
- Lead recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and building a positive team culture.
- Connect with customers on a regular basis, build the roadmap for the team, collaborate with the product manager team and other sister teams to execute on new projects.

About the team
The Transactional Storage and Config (TSC) organization supports the Amazon builders by providing technologies for Transaction Storage, high cardinality configuration storages, and safe movement of Amazon Data. Our projects support Amazon businesses like Stores, Alexa, Kindle, and Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving AWS and non-AWS technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions, simple to use, and delivered with engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers. With millions of people using Amazon’s products every day, we appreciate the importance of making our solutions “just work”.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

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
- Bachelor's degree

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