Software Development Manager, Transportation Engineering Systems
DESCRIPTION
Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, and convenience – Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. We are looking for a Software Manager with expertise and passion to imagine, build and develop innovative products. The ideal candidate will be curious, have attention to detail, be energized by challenging entrepreneurial environment, be comfortable thinking big while also diving deep.
If you are looking for an opportunity to lead strong development teams and build creative technology solutions that positively impact hundreds of millions of international customers, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today! As a Software Development manager, you will identify, hire and build cross geography teams of Software Engineers to define, drive and execute on this vision. You will initiate processes that allow the team to collaborate with local as well as global teams with a high degree of efficiency. This role will lead the software development for the core automation platform of the Transportation Engineering Systems team. The technology focuses on the automation and accuracy of consuming transportation network design inputs and converting them into configuration elements that define Amazon's transportation flows into core transportation technology systems.
You will develop teams of highly motivated and talented individuals that can collaborate with Configuration Experts, Product Managers and Software Engineers across the company on this high impact initiative. You will design, build and own configuration automation and transportation plan generation products for our NA configuration and network planners.
About the team
TESS manages transportation network configuration by working with different internal stakeholders and systems, to deliver desired business outcomes. We work at the intersection of business and systems. This role will directly influence the decisions and strategy of TESS by gathering customer needs and insights and mining large and diverse data sets. This position will work with directly with business leaders and teams along with various stakeholders to track business goals and initiatives.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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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