Description

APS ( Amazon Payment Service) is looking for a talented and experienced Software Development Manager to drive initiatives across teams and to rollout business transformational programs. In this role, the SDM will work with Senior SDEs, PEs, Product Managers, Risk Managers, TPMs and Senior Leadership to design, develop and deliver results while fostering inputs and participation from all levels of the organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

We are looking for a seasoned SDM to design/build massive scale, distributed computing solutions with focus on information security. You will be responsible for driving the team’s structuring, growth, technical direction, strategizing and shaping our long-term vision and architecture. You will own major deliverables end-to-end, drive roadmaps, and provide technical leadership to the engineering team. If you're excited by cloud computing, designing highly secure, scalable, fault tolerant systems, and want to be challenged by tough computer science problems, then join us.

You should be someone who wants to conceive and design highly secure, scalable, and robust software to address opportunities in the payments industry through cloud computing. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in software with focus on distributed systems, web services, and high availability production systems.

• Work with PE, Sr.SDE, TPM and Product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide new products from scratch.

• Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.

• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.

• Project management - prioritization , planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments

• Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services

• Hire, Build and grow a new team from scratch.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience

• 3+ years of engineering team management 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