Software Development Manager, AWS FinTech

Our organization owns and builds in-house software platforms, web services, and web apps that are used to collaborate on projects, programs, goals, and general business processes used by leaders who own planning and analysis of commitments company-wide. We provide a suite of productivity tools to support the commitment life cycle through centralized data collection, auditing, and reporting. We deliver and maintain Amazon’s internal source of truth for the company’s highest level of planning and commitments. We provide teams with end-to-end tracking and reporting across those commitments helping create a narrative of their success with mechanisms that monitor progress, and analyze both wins and misses.

Our applications have grown to be business critical used internally within Amazon. Our largest and most passionate customer is AWS who has deemed our service mission critical. We are passionate about creating meaningful and delightful user experiences for our customers.

In this role, you will be responsible for mentoring and coaching a team of software developers to create world-class systems that support Amazon's global footprint. You must be willing to insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that software is designed to be highly available, dynamically scalable, and resilient to continuity threats.

You will drive architectural and design choices and invent new features. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect developers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture, and project delivery. Successful candidates will be high-bandwidth leaders who can cut through the noise, simplify relentlessly, deliver results, and build great teams around themselves.

Key job responsibilities
Build and nurture a team of software developers

Shape team goals by developing a deep understanding of our customer's business processes and success criteria

Develop and execute a long-term architecture while balancing short term commitments

Work closely with the team to architect and develop the best technical design and approach to solve complex problems

Effectively partner with engineering and non-engineering groups across the organization to deliver on own goals

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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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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