Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable Financial systems that support Amazon's current and future growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Does the prospect of working with top engineering talent get you charged up? If so, Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is for you!
FinTech at Amazon is an organization where people, technology and innovation come together to build products and solve problems for the broader finance organization. We are looking for a software development manager to join us and innovate for our customers. You will get the opportunity to build a team and lead software development in a greenfield area using AWS services, big data technologies and machine learning.
Our ideal candidate is customer focused and enjoys the challenge of complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time. You will be a passionate builder of talent and teams. As a Manager within Finance Technology you will help set the vision for a new suite of technology that will enable thousands of global Amazonians continue to be Earth's Most Customer Centric Company.
Software Development Managers at Amazon are owners. You will own your team, your roadmap and the end to end customer experience. You will drive engineering and operational excellence in your team and build delightful products for your customers. You will partner with business stakeholders and will strive to earn their trust. You will work directly with your customers and will constantly innovate on their behalf. You will be a great people manager and enjoy working with diverse mindsets.
In this role you will be responsible for creating world-class finance systems that support Amazon's global footprint. You must be willing to insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. The systems we own are responsible for trillions of financial events and payment flows that would rank among the largest countries in the world. 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.
As a technology leader, you will drive architectural and design choices and invent new features. We have a team culture that encourages innovation where developers and management alike 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 Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of large-scale financial systems with significant business impact, establishing high standards for processes and execution to ensure quality and efficiency. Build and nurture a high-performing team through effective hiring, mentoring, and skills development, creating an environment that fosters innovation and continuous learning. Drive technical architecture decisions that ensure systems are highly-available, dynamically scalable, and resilient, establishing mechanisms to measure and improve performance. Develop and own product vision, strategy, and roadmap while effectively executing projects in an Agile environment and participating in business reviews with executive leadership. Oversee the entire software development lifecycle from planning to deployment, evaluating complex business requirements and communicating inherent risks and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A day in the life Your day begins with reviewing project roadmaps and timelines, prioritizing tasks, and allocating resources to meet critical deliverables. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives and customer needs. Throughout the day, you'll provide technical mentorship to team members, facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions, and identify training opportunities to foster continuous learning and improvement. You'll also participate in architectural discussions that shape the future direction of your team's systems.
About the team The Delta team's charter involves expanding compliance monitoring across all services supported by AWS. We're implementing advanced monitoring techniques including Anomaly Detection, seamlessly integrating with emerging technologies, and incorporating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities. This enables us to rapidly expand compliance monitoring scope across the entire AWS service portfolio and enhance Software Development Lifecycle Monitoring with Deployment Validation.
At Amazon FinTech, you'll work with top engineering talent, drive innovation, and develop your career in an environment that encourages creative thinking and speed. Join us and be part of a team that shapes the future of financial technology at Amazon using modular, reusable architectures for scalability and adaptability.
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
- 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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