Manager, Software Development, Identity Services
DESCRIPTION
Are you passionate about enabling millions of customers around the world to use their Amazon accounts securely and conveniently, anywhere, anytime? Can you run large cross-team projects? Are you equally comfortable digging into business requirements and building relationships with business stakeholders, as drilling into architecture with development teams? Do you want to take Amazon's authentication platform to the next level?
We, Identity Services team, need a Software Development Manager for our Authentication Platform team. You will be responsible for large, multi-year initiatives, while finding the right balance between building for immediate needs and building sustainable architectures. Your team will need to meet authentication and security related goals, and help us stay ahead of future changes.
As we build, grow, and scale Amazon’s authentication platform, it will be critical for you to be customer obsessed, able to dive into technical details, and insist on high standards. You will be a key player in driving the growth of Amazon's businesses by enabling them to rely on the most secure, convenient and intuitive authentication solution in the world. You will drive future solutions that will impact the authentication experience of Amazon's customers worldwide. You will have the opportunity to interface with many teams, both technical and non-technical, across the company, and most importantly- you'll get to work with some awesome people having a lot of fun!
A successful candidate will have an established background in developing scalable systems, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, and love working to develop leaders in a growing organization.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead engineering team in executing against project plans, and delivery commitments.
- Delivery of high-quality, scalable software on-time and on-budget.
- Evolve the software engineering practice within the organization
- Drive the organization development by hiring, and developing talent within the group.
- Conduct performance reviews of team members.
- Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into detailed project plans.
- Define our technical culture, and help build a fast-growing team
About the team
Identity Services' mission is to deliver the world's most secure, convenient, and intuitive Identity experience. We own backend functionality for customer authentication, customer attributes, profiles for customers sharing a single account, and household relationships, across all web, mobile, and device apps 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
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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/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.