Software Development Manager, Amazon Now (Project Tez)

We are from India Grocery and Everyday Essentials team. We are working on a confidential grounds up initiative for an upcoming and fast growing e-commerce space in India. We are developing grounds up a completely brand new e-commerce customer experience, last mile and supply chain systems, powered by latest backend and frontend technologies. Our product will span across entire lifecycle of e-commerce starting from supply chain to shopping journey, order fulfillment and delivery, and post order experience.

Key job responsibilities

Own building Amazon first ground-up tech capabilities and products

You will own building technology that innovates for the fast growing e-commerce domain in India and beyond

To enable this business initiatives, you will lead the definition and execution of strategic projects aimed at building best-in-class experience for customer and delivery experience

You will have end to end ownership of cross-functional projects, including product definition, roadmap/resource planning and project execution.

You will work closely with product, business, category and marketing leadership, including executive leadership at Amazon, to define the product and build vision for the program.

At the heart of this role is technology innovation. You will be hands-on in driving the delivery of critical technical initiatives, right from building the vision, requirements definition, designing solution with Amazon first innovation in combination with leveraging Amazon?s global technology solutions and delivering high quality scalable tech capabilities.

As a leader, you will deliver through exceptional engineers and work closely with technical program managers, principal engineers while hiring and developing a world-class engineering team.

As an enthusiastic, motivated, curious, empathetic, reliable team member, you will drive the culture for the team and organization. As a strong people leader you will champion diversity and inclusion in your team and organization.

You will provide leadership and innovation in the design and implementation of services to enable new products and services.

You will establish strong project management processes, standards and guidelines in the execution of high velocity and high impact deliveries.

You will champion operation and engineering practices in the team, exemplifying scalable product development lifecycle practices

About the team

We are fast-paced and focussed team made of passionate and ambitious Amazonians who strive to build industry leading products while closely collaborating and having fun. The team is made of Amazon veterans and are working on first time in Amazon initiatives which will scale beyond India and grocery. The team follows a flexible and collaborative work culture with ample mentoring and guidance from senior leaders. The team values high ownership, bias for action and insist on highest standards and follows build fast and iterate fast methodology. The team is suitable for passionate leaders who are equally interested in contributing to business and product roadmap while leading a high performing and high velocity team.

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

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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