Software Development Manager

Lead development of solutions putting food on the table of Amazons worldwide grocery customers.

Amazon is transforming the way that people shop for groceries. Were looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the team that owns dispatching and delay detection for millions of shoppers worldwide. This is a chance to shape how same-day delivery works at scale from order to delivery.

As a Software Development Manager you will be equal parts people leader technical strategist and customer advocate. Youll work with a team excellent of software engineers in Brisbane using industry leading AI tools to design build and operate the systems that power key parts of the post-purchase experience across multiple countries.

Your day-to-day work will involve defining the technical direction for your teams products collaborating with product managers UX designers and operational leaders to solve customer problems and growing your engineers into their next roles.

Key job responsibilities
- Define and communicate a clear technical vision and roadmap for your teams products working backwards from customer needs to prioritise what gets built and in what order.
- Hire develop and retain a high-performing engineering team by providing coaching feedback and meaningful growth opportunities for engineers at all levels.
- Incorporate AI efficiencies into the software development lifecycle leveraging AI as a productivity accelerant while applying your teams critical thinking and judgement.
- Partner with product management design and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into well-scoped deliverables with measurable customer outcomes.
- Own the operational excellence of your teams systems including availability performance and incident response ensuring a reliable experience for customers at scale.

- Drive architectural decisions and technical trade-offs staying close enough to the details to ask the right questions while empowering your engineers to own implementation.

- 5 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 5 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- 5 years of managing and developing high performance teams experience
- Experience delivering large cross-functional customer facing products
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development life cycle including agile methodologies coding standards code reviews source management build processes testing and operations
- Bachelors degree or above in computer science or equivalent or experience in software development

- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced multi-disciplined distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
- Experience in many disparate technologies typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

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IDE statement:
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