Software Development Manager, Checkout Platform

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Wherever a shopper starts their journey with Amazon, Checkout is the destination. Tens of millions of people a week make their way through Checkout's customer experiences and systems on the way to being delighted by their purchase. Our mission is to be the most trusted and delightfully easy purchase experience on Earth. We have outsized ability for customer and business impact and own mission critical distributed systems infrastructure used by hundreds of engineers across the company. We’ve evolved our operations models to suit with well-supported, follow-the-sun on-call with our sibling teams across the globe. We care deeply about our people and our software: we are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive environment where everyone can be successful.

As the manager on Checkout, you will be part of the core engineering team at Amazon building the underlying checkout platform used by hundreds of millions of customers across the world every day. You will be directly responsible for the availability of the platform and the latency of the checkout experience, holding the highest standards to ensure that changes from software builders do not regress performance for customers. You will collaborate closely with product and program management teams to translate customer needs into technical priorities and deliver results. You will also change how the team operates by championing AI-native development practices that accelerate velocity and improve quality. A successful Software Development Manager should be highly autonomous with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze quantitatively, scope technical requirements, effectively prioritize program deliverables, and communicate clearly. If you seek a challenge to lead engineering teams to build large-scale innovative software products powering the mission-critical Checkout experience on Amazon, then come join us in making history!

Requirements

• 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
• 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Experience in operations of highly available and scalable internet systems with a large customer base
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
• Experience leading and influencing your team or organization, or experience in debugging, profiling, and implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems
• Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition throughout the product life cycle from concept to end of lifecycle
• Experience championing AI-native development practices, including AI-assisted coding, testing, or operational tooling.

Responsibilities

• Directly responsible for the availability of the platform and the latency of the checkout experience.
• Holding the highest standards to ensure that changes from software builders do not regress performance for customers.
• Collaborate closely with product and program management teams to translate customer needs into technical priorities and deliver results.
• Change how the team operates by championing AI-native development practices that accelerate velocity and improve quality.
• Analyze quantitatively, scope technical requirements, effectively prioritize program deliverables, and communicate clearly.
• Lead engineering teams to build large-scale innovative software products powering the mission-critical Checkout experience on Amazon.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager