Software Development Manager, FBA

Amazon Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Bengaluru is seeking an accomplished Software Development Manager to lead a team that builds scalable, highly available web services at the heart of FBA technology. You will ensure reliability and performance while driving a high-velocity software delivery culture.

The role requires deep experience in distributed systems, architecture and cross-functional collaboration with global teams, including high-level leadership and a strong hiring/mentoring track.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services
• Experience with lifecycle processes, code reviews, source control, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product/program management teams
• Experience designing or architecting scalable systems
• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science
• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development
• 8+ years in design/architecture of systems
• 6+ years of engineering team management
• Experience with Agile teams at scale
• Strong written and verbal communication to senior leadership
• Experience with non-relational databases
• Experience in distributed/high-volume transaction systems

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and roadmap with senior FBA leaders
• Lead high-quality execution of software products against plans; design for extensibility, reliability, scalability
• Build and develop a high-performance software organization by hiring and mentoring
• Own all operational metrics and support
• Collaborate with global development teams across locations

Skills

Engineering team management

Software development leadership

Distributed systems

Architecture & design

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Non-relational databases

Cloud / AWS

Mentoring

Retail / ecommerce domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

READY TO DO SOMETHING BIG?

How would you build the next generation of mission critical systems and services that power the ability to send, store and manage billions of products across the globe on behalf of our selling partners?

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is the Amazon service for world-wide sellers that offers access to Amazon's vast distribution network as a service. Similar to how AWS provides infrastructure as a service, FBA allows sellers to only pay for what they use, creating a seamless experience to leverage our world-class infrastructure. Sellers, from Fortune 50 companies to hundreds of thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs, in 135 countries worldwide, rely upon our world-leading technology to grow and thrive on Amazon's Marketplaces.

As a leader within FBA, you will provide both strategic and tactical oversight to build the features and functionality required to have the best in class offering for sellers. This leader will create mechanisms to drive optimal seller behavior for FBA inventory management, reducing total supply chain costs and making it easier for sellers to get their inventory close to customers, delivering more items with a Prime delivery promise. This leader will invent new ways to deliver value for sellers and their products, while leveraging the scale and innovation of technology from across the Amazon family, including AWS.

We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing our team great flexibility in product and technology direction. Come, join us and build the future!

Key job responsibilities

This Software Development Manager role is pivotal to delivering an exceptional experience for FBA customers and sellers worldwide. This leader will manage a team that develops and maintains highly scalable, highly available web services and systems at the heart of FBA technology offerings. These services support the FBA business globally, through rapidly evolving and complex demands in a high-9's availability environment.

A day in the life

This leader will:

• Work with senior leaders in FBA to define product strategy and roadmap
• Lead high-quality execution of software products against project plans and delivery commitments; architect and develop the best technical designs for extensibility, reliability, and scalability
• Build and develop a high performance software development organization by hiring, mentoring and growing a best-in-class team
• Own all operational metrics and support
• Work directly with development teams in Bellevue, Toronto, Bangalore, and across the globe on shared projects and dependent deliverables

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
• - Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• - Bachelor's degree or above in computer science
• - 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• - 8+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• - 6+ years of engineering team management experience
• - Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• - 7+ years of leading multiple Agile teams (like Scrum Masters, Product Owners) concurrently or at scale experience
• - Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
• - Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)
• - Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications

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
• - Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or MS degree
• - Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services
• - Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience in computer architecture
• - Experience in a high volume, transactional and distributed system environment
• - Experience with retail or e-commerce research in a global context

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