SmartCommerce team located in Bangalore is looking for an Software Development Manager to deliver strategic goals for Amazon SmartCommerce suite of products (https://smartcommerce.amazon.in/). This is an opportunity to join our mission to build tech solutions that empower sellers to delight the next billion customers. You will be responsible for building new system capabilities grounds up for strategic business initiatives. If you feel excited by the challenge of setting the course for large company wide initiatives and building and launching customer facing products, this may be the next big career move for you.

We operate in a high performance co-located agile ecosystem where SDEs, SDMs and Product Managers frequently connect with end customers of our products. Our SDEs stay connected with customers through various mechanisms and are involved in the product thinking and strategy throughout. This allows our engineering team to significantly influence product roadmap, contribute to PRFAQs and create disproportionate impact through the tech they deliver. We pride ourselves in being able to keep overheads minimum and being able to be the most productive and agile one can be, ensuring we deliver the most impact to our customers.

We operate like a start-up within the Amazon ecosystem and have proven track record of delivering inventions that work globally. You will be challenged to look at the world through the eyes of our seller customers and think outside the box to build new tech solutions to make our Sellers successful. You will often find yourself building products and services that are new to Amazon and will have an opportunity to pioneer not just the technology components but the idea itself across other Amazon teams and markets.

Key job responsibilities
As a part of this role, you will:

• Build and manage a team of industry-leading software engineers
• Foster career growth and a strong team culture
• Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach technical staff
• Work cross-functionally, interfacing with internal customers to understand requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress
• Own all operational metrics and support for your team’s software
• Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver incremental value to customers
• Work with product management to develop long-term architectural and business strategy

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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