Do you want to reach the next level in your career as Software Development Manager? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch technologies? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to discover the best from a multi-billion product selection!
The Amazon Gifting teams build the experiences to connect gift givers and gift recipients. We start by providing services to help shoppers find the perfect gift. Then we enrich the gift giving experience through enabling gift messages, gift wrap, gift receipts, and options to let the recipient choose their own shipping address. The services and products you build will support hundreds of millions of customers shopping for gifts. We do this by combining technology, science, innovation and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside tools for marketers.
To succeed in this role, you should be a leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and who has a track record of building strong teams that deliver results. You have a strong sense of ownership, passion to provide great customer experience and excellent troubleshooting skills even when in high-pressure situations. Experience with distributed systems and high-availability eCommerce services will be very applicable and helpful.
By joining this team, your will be based in our Development Center in Berlin, Germany.
A day in the life
- Hiring and developing an engineering team that is responsible for design, development, and operations
- Managing and mentoring engineers, ensuring organizational health and career development within your organization
- Participating in strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives and define technical direction, managing resource allocation between multiple engineering teams
- Leading design reviews for engineers, and driving feedback on architecture, design and operational issues
- Working with Applied Scientists to deliver machine learning based solutions
About the team
We believe in rapid development and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement, both onsite and offsite. The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built services. There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale.
Would you like to meet a member of Gifting team? Read the journey of Shalini, Sr PMT working in this team: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/qa-shalini-sr-technical-product-manager-amazon-upmt-gifting-rettmer-ml98f/?trackingId=koF%2BHn7IT527RC%2FSovvUgw%3D%3D
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
- 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
- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
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