Software Development Manager, Worldwide Grocery Tech, Site Foundation Engineering

Software Development Manager

Amazon Worldwide Grocery Tech is looking for a passionate and innovative Software Development Manager to join the Grocery Tech team. This team is deployed to solve some of our most complex and challenging projects and will deliver innovative technical solutions. We have an opportunity to revolutionize on-line shopping and set new standards for accessing the highest quality organic and natural groceries on-online. As the SDM, you will be a key member of tech leadership and will need to drive forward the technology across Amazon to create a best in class online grocery shopping experience.

We are looking for a SDM with strong business and technical skills, great communication abilities, and a passion to use data and technologies to help Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go, and Grocery online fulfillment.

The team is entrepreneurial and innovative, thriving on solving ambiguous problems. We can't wait to show what's possible when Amazon Grocery innovates in order to provide best in class experiences for our in-store and fulfillment center leaders and associates. This is just the beginning and we need exceptional people across all technology disciplines to build and unearth the full potential of this opportunity.

The role requires you to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment. As a SDM, you will help tackle a diverse landscape of challenges. You will play an active role in translating business requirements into concrete timelines and prototyping concepts in partnership with other Amazon teams, technology leaders within the team and across the business.

Key attributes and responsibilities include:

• Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data.
• Team obsessed: You help grow your team members to achieve results.
• Ambitious, yet humble: You recognize that there's always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.
• Engaged by ambiguity: You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions.

You will:

• Own program vision and direction.
• Lead beyond your team.
• Work collaboratively, shaping the vision and strategy for solving business problems.
• Develop an architecture, thinking long term about futuristic needs.
• Mentor, grow, and share the journey to deliver with quality.
• Deep dive, develop and deliver systems that are highly maintainable.
• Data driven approach for making right architecture decisions, managing business priorities.

A day in the life as a software development manager on this team will include:

• Working collaboratively, shaping the vision and strategy for solving business problems.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions to drive service optimization, cost, and security.
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables.
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

About the team:

• Diverse Experiences - We values diverse experiences.
• Mentorship & Career Growth - We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer.
• Work/Life Balance - We value work-life harmony.