Software Development Manager, Transportation Financial Systems

If you are looking for a high impactful opportunity with interesting engineering challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the role for you to build scalable and innovative solutions.

What will you own?

You will own the set of solutions within the Transportation Financial systems responsible for meeting regional and global compliance requirements to enable timely payments and accounting automation of carrier invoices. As part of automating carrier invoices for payments, our solutions ensure compliance with Tax, e-invoicing, SOX, GRC and ACT compliance. Our mission is to ensure we are enabling Amazon Transportation businesses to achieve 100% compliant payment and accounting of invoices with zero touch efforts from Amazon operational teams. You embrace latest technologies to manage cross cutting system with billions of transactions in an automated manner. This requires building scalable systems that are far from trivial and involves deep business understanding, tech acumen. You will work alongside stakeholders and product managers identifying cost-saving opportunities, create technical roadmap and manage a high-performing team of 6 to 8 engineers achieving our 3 years architectural vision.

Who we are?

We, Transportation Financial Systems (TFS) are responsible for building technologies that support financial aspects for Amazon transportation. Amazon’s transportation systems get millions of packages to customers worldwide faster and cheaper while providing world-class customer experience – from checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Our software systems include services that handle tens of thousands or requests per second and make decisions to pay billions of dollars a year and ensure that transportation's liabilities and revenues are correctly accounted and paid to our partners timely. With rapid expansion into new geographies, we have an opportunity to build software that scales not only with volume but also with the business models. We leverage latest technologies in machine learning and GenAI to support high volume, low latency, high availability services.

TFS is 100+ tech team across eight different platforms. We deal with problems of scale. Billions of dollars of spend is automated through our platforms and pipelines. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with our global product teams and customers across the world and other tech teams in the organization as we raise the bar in delivering innovation.

Key job responsibilities

What will you own?

• You will own managing a team of 6-8 engineers within Transport Financial System. Your primary responsibility is to manage diverse initiatives and enable your team to deliver long term technical solves
• You will own roadmap execution for your tech area, in close collaboration with TFS Product Management and internal clients/stakeholders including Tax, FinOps, Risk controllership and Accounting
• You will own implementing company and org wide policies for health and security of our systems, and for managing Operational Load in running these systems at Amazon scale.
• You are responsible for driving innovation and next-gen solution vision for your area in collaboration with Sr SDEs and PEs
• You are responsible for managing growth of SDEs reporting to you through structured performance management and career growth plan

What interesting engineering problem will you solve?

• You will own building a high scalable system that can handle billions of transactions from carrier manifests and invoices delivering logistic services
• You will own the charter responsible for enabling Tax and SOX Compliance for TFS Invoicing and Accounting flows to meet regional and global compliance requirements
• You will own the critical compliance metrics for WW Transportation

What large scale program opportunities you will have?

• You will own the partner relationship with our stakeholders and business partners to influence the roadmap, and deliver as per agreed upon plan
• You will work closely with principal product managers and business leaders in prioritizing work and ensure timely and quality delivery of those.
• You will ensure open issues and hotly debated topics are surfaced in right internal/external forums to safeguard your team's roadmap to deliver most important things for the customers

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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