Software Development Manager, Fashion Tech - Amazon

Description Are you obsessed with building world class shopping experiences that delight customers? Do you want to reinvent the end-to-end shopping experience for fashion products, from front-end to supply chain and everything in between? Do you want to lead initiatives that will have a significant impact to Amazon's customer experience and bottom line? As a Software Development Manager, you will lead an engineering team that will help launch an exciting new customer experience. You will lead a team that designs, develops, tests, and deploys new customer-facing features. We are looking for a highly motivated, top notch leader with both product and technical acumen. You will have the opportunity to build, scale and shape the direction of this business. This role requires deep technical expertise, excellent leadership skills, and solid product instincts. You will provide thought leadership in a fast-paced development environment, and partner with product management and senior leaders to ensure the success of this program, while solving broad industry challenges. If you enjoy dealing with high ambiguity, complexity and broad scope that will be at the epicenter of Amazon Fashion shopping, come join us! Key job responsibilities - Lead E2E architecture, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of technology-focused tools and services. - Provide leadership and innovation in the design and implementation of services to enable new products and services. - Evaluate complex business and technical requirements, and communicate inherent risks and solutions to technical and non-technical business owners. - Act as point of contact for communications dealing with project deliverables, setting the expectation, managing priorities, technologies, human factors and management issues. - Effectively communicate ideas and provide updates to key stakeholders and leadership. - Effectively partner with Product and Design team to define roadmap and product direction. - Identify key partners to deliver the goal and establish effective partnership model. - Effectively hire, develop and manage performance. A day in the life In this role you will work closely with stakeholders, software engineers, business development and product teams to deliver our most complex, high quality, scalable products deployed globally around the world. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA 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 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 Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $148,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.