Software Development Manager Books Purchase And Payment Experience

Amazon; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Books Purchase and Payments Experience team seeks an experienced Software Development Manager to lead a team delivering tier-1 services across books purchase, agentic commerce, and payments. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and partner with product and program management to deliver customer-centric software at scale.

You will manage cross-functional collaboration, ensure SLAs, and push for innovation in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high quality and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 5+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• 5+ years engineering team management experience.
• Experience partnering with product and program management.
• Knowledge of SDLC, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, livesite operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to build scalable, tier-1 services and complex systems.
• Mentor and grow team members in a fast-paced environment.
• Partner with product, program management, and stakeholders to define roadmaps and priorities.
• Ensure system- and business-level SLAs with a relentless focus on quality and reliability.

Skills

Architecture & design

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

SDLC & best practices

AI systems experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Job Description:

Description

Join us as we reinvent the books purchase experience of millions of customer across worldwide.

The Amazon Books Purchase and Payments Experience team is looking for an experienced software development manager who is passionate about developing challenging and elegant software solutions, customer- centric products, and building a team and product from scratch. You will be leading a team of engineers who work on tier 1 services, agentic commerce, payments, basket building CX, retail ordering and AWS Systems . Expect to be challenged!

The ideal candidate will have an established background building and managing large scale systems, great communication skills, a proven track record of building best-in‑class engineering teams, and the ability to innovate and deliver in a fast paced environment. This person will also be responsible for ensuring various system‑level and business‑level SLAs are met, while maintaining an unrelenting focus on quality, throughput and innovation. This person will have regular interactions with various internal business‑owners, external publishers/institutes to help understand priorities of tasks/projects, handling system issues and managing communication across all stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities

You are a leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and who has a track record of building cohesive and inclusive teams that deliver results.

You also love growing individuals and are invested in the success of each member of your team.

You enjoy working in a fast‑paced environment, partnering with peers and stakeholders to solve challenging business and technical problems.

You have a solid customer focus and advocate for their needs in product development, roadmap prioritization, requirements and design reviews, and in operational support.

You have a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile development processes.

You pave the way for innovation and know how to think big and invent and simplify. This role requires creative engineering and collaboration with your team.

As a technical leader, you understand the technology your team owns, are willing to dive deep in to technical details, and can provide feedback and technical guidance to your team on design and architecture decisions.

You collaborate with technical leaders and senior developers across the org to build scalable, distributed systems.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• 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 working with or evaluating AI systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree
• 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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Company - ADCI MAA 15 SEZ

Job ID: A10544198