Software Development Manager, Pricing Shared Services

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Development Manager in Pricing Shared Services, where you'll tackle complex technical challenges in pricing optimization and large-scale systems. This role involves leading a talented team of engineers, fostering innovation, and driving the development of cutting-edge pricing tools that enhance customer trust globally. You'll collaborate with diverse teams to create seamless user experiences, while your leadership will help shape the careers of your developers. If you're passionate about technology and looking to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Drive team development and remove bottlenecks to enhance productivity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate pricing solutions.

Skills

Team Management

Project Management

Leadership

Machine Learning

Data Mining

Distributed Systems

Large-scale Computing

Statistical Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Software Development Manager, Pricing Shared Services

Job ID: 2962084 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Pricing Shared Services is core team that enables pricing for Amazon worldwide. You will play a key role in the evolution of our core platform services and Pricing algorithms to solve the world's most complex technical challenges in pricing optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, algorithms and data mining - to name a few. The Pricing systems are responsible for determining and publishing prices automatically, for the millions of items that Amazon sells worldwide ranging from Books to Consumer Electronics to Shoes. Each country presents a unique set of complexities in generating the price. We are experimenting with new machine learning algorithms to lower the prices for our customers. We are redesigning our core services to scale up with Amazon’s growth plans.

As an experienced SDM in Amazon Pricing team, you will play a key role in solving some of the world's most complex technical challenges presented by machine learning and big scale systems. You will apply Large-scale computing, Distributed systems, Data mining, Scalability, Machine learning and Statistical Algorithms techniques.

A day in the life

To be successful you will need to be able to keep the long-term objectives in mind while guiding the team through short-term obstacles. You drive relentlessly to develop the careers of your developers, improve our development processes, remove bottlenecks and friction, and allow the team to move at a fast pace. You will need to collaborate closely with business leads, product owners, technical program managers, designers and partner teams. You are comfortable with a degree of ambiguity and are always open to identifying alternative paths.

What does an ideal Software Development Manager candidate look like?

First, you have demonstrated strong technical, project management, and leadership skills by leading a team of software engineers to develop products used by millions of people every day. You love attracting and growing high caliber talent, and have a record of accomplishment to prove it.

About the team

Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Do you want to better understand how Amazon fosters customer trust globally with its pricing decisions? Does the challenge of applying state-of-the-art computer science to define/design/build tools powered by large scale systems that solve real-world problems interest you? Do you have a passion for taking complex business inputs and processes and designing best-in-class workflows and interfaces which deliver simple, seamless user experiences? To meet these challenges, Amazon's Pricing team is looking for passionate and innovative software development engineers with a blend of technical, analytical and design skills who will work with other software engineers, project managers, product managers across different countries and cross-functional teams to help build out the next generation pricing tools for Amazon.com worldwide.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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

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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