Software Development Manager, Amazon Payment Products

Are you interested in being part of a fast-paced technology company driving innovative payments to consumers around the world? Amazon Payment Products team builds systems that support payment products across the globe and continues to expand it's product suite and delights customers around the world. The products include Amazon Co-Branded Credit Cards, Private Labeled Credit Cards (PLCC), Co-Branded Debit Cards, Shop with Points, and Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Credit Line.

We are looking for a technically strong engineering leader to define the three-year architectural vision and roadmap for the team. The team provide customers with a seamless and intuitive experience when linking their account, accessing their account details and viewing their statements on Amazon.com. You will help influence the team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach, setting the standard for engineering excellence, taking the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous technical problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams and collaborate and influence other teams throughout the greater Amazon Payment Products organization. To achieve results through others, you will demonstrate technical influence over the different individual teams, either via a collaborative software effort or by increasing their productivity and effectiveness by driving software engineering best practices. You'll also lead design reviews for the organization, actively participate in design and program reviews and actively mentor other engineers

As a Software Development Manager, you will identify, hire and build a world-class team of development engineers to define, drive and execute on this vision. You will initiate processes that allow the team to collaborate with local as well as global teams with a high degree of efficiency. You will develop a team of highly motivated and talented individuals that can collaborate with Project Managers, Product Managers, and SDEs across the company on this high-impact initiative.

Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of co-brand credit card servicing solutions and managing complex projects with significant bottom-line impact
• Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for the customers to manage their payment product
• 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.
• Perform project management duties, including prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management, and tracking of external commitments
• Maintain Operational Excellence in monitoring and operation of production services
• Career management and development of direct reports

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 171,400.00 - 286,200.00 CAD annually