Software Development Manager (SDM), AFT Safety \u0026 Compliance

Have you ever wondered how Amazon operates its workforce to power the largest and most advanced fulfillment operation in the world? Operating at Amazon's scale demands intelligent systems to ensure that we can safely deliver products to our customers at speed. Our Teams build systems that enable Amazon to continuously improve safety and maintain compliance for our customers, people, products, sites, and fulfillment network.

We are on a mission to make Amazon Earth's safest place to work! We are looking for a collaborative, results-oriented, inventive software leader to lead and support a team of developers working on initiatives to keep our people safe while delivering products to our customers when they need it. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a strong understanding of core software development and algorithmic concepts, and are passionate about technology and want to solve high-impact business problems at Amazon scale. As the software development manager, you will be responsible for driving the roadmap, vision, and technical direction for a multiple large software systems.

You will be part of the larger technical leadership community at Amazon. This community forms the backbone of the company, plays a critical role in broad business planning, works closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements, influences our long-term technical and business strategy, helps us hire a talented team of engineers and ultimately enables us to deliver innovative, new solutions rapidly.

We are looking for entrepreneurial, innovative individuals who thrive on solving tough problems. You will be joining a select group of a people making history producing one of the most critical products at Amazon!

Key job responsibilities

The role requires you to be able to manage the overall software development lifecycle, which includes the following responsibilities:

- Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments

- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

- Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach

- Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics

- Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization

- Partner with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes

- Propose and implement new projects or recommend system improvements.

- Own all operational metrics and support

- Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon

- Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives

- Set clear, measurable quality goals for an organization in a data-driven way

A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon's global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

Safety & Compliance

AFT's Safety & Compliance team owns an innovative, data-driven information management solution that identifies, tracks, and mitigates safety & compliance concerns for business lines across Amazon.

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

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.

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