Software Development Manager AFFS Amazon

Amazon; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Financials Foundation Services (AFFS) is seeking a hands-on Manager to lead a high-performing team of engineers. You will scale, monitor, and optimize systems, partnering with Retail, Marketplace, Digital, and Financial teams to deliver reliable services.

You will drive architecture choices, establish governance, and mentor engineers in a fast-paced environment. The role requires 7+ years in engineering and 3+ years of leadership with a track record in high-volume services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 2+3?
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 8+ years of leading multi-tier web services development.

Responsibilities

• Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers results.
• Design and develop scalable multi-tier web services.
• Mentor and grow SDEs to take on higher responsibilities.
• Report on status of development, quality, and performance.
• Develop long-term strategy and translate into roadmap.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics or related field

Job description

Job Description:

Amazon Financials Foundation Services (AFFS), a division within Amazon’s eCommerce Services Organization (eCS) is leading innovation in business systems integration and defining the future of financial accounting at Amazon scale. Our systems are advancing one of the worlds most scalable, reliable, and secure e-commerce ecosystem and responsible for processing hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions, in multiple currencies and countries. We are at the center of Amazon’s key initiatives and fueling the growth of Amazon’s businesses worldwide by constantly raising the bar on the speed at which business teams can integrate with our systems.

As a Manager here, you will lead your team of high performing engineers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize systems within AFFS. You will interface with several teams including Retail Systems, Marketplace Systems, Digital Systems, Web services, Financial systems and operations. Our mission is to provide a world-class customer experience using scalable and robust software, so the challenges and opportunities span both the business and technical realms.

A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing high volume and highly available services, strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic, fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities

• Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations
• Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems
• Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning
• Develop long term strategy for your programs and translate it into roadmap and action plan
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
• Mentor and grow superstar SDEs to take on increasingly higher responsibilities

About the team

Amazon Financials Foundation Services (AFFS), a division within Amazon’s eCommerce Services Organization (eCS) is leading innovation in business systems integration and defining the future of financial accounting at Amazon scale. Our systems are advancing one of the worlds most scalable, reliable, and secure e-commerce ecosystem and responsible for processing hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions, in multiple currencies and countries. We are at the center of Amazon’s key initiatives and fueling the growth of Amazon’s businesses worldwide by constantly raising the bar on the speed at which business teams can integrate with our systems.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of engineering team management 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
• Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
• 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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