Software Development Manager, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) - Outbound/Flow
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Description
We are seeking a talented technical professional with strong software engineering and people management skills to be our Software Development Manager. You will manage a team building large-scale distributed systems that power Amazon's fulfillment centers worldwide. If you want to design, deliver, and operate innovative picking software enabling our warehouse associates to fulfill customer orders, we offer unmatched career growth, mentoring, and community engagement opportunities. Come build the next generation of our fulfillment systems and advance your career with Amazon!
The successful candidate will manage an existing team of software development engineers, partnering with other managers, to design, build, and operate innovative picking software. With a high degree of ownership, you will develop our proprietary solutions end-to-end.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage overall software development life-cycle
- Leader of multiple software engineers in one team
- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
- Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
- Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
- Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization
- Work with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
- Own all operational metrics and support
- Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon
- Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
- Set clear, measurable quality goals for the team in a data-driven way
Amazon Leadership Principles for Amazon leaders:
- Demonstrate excellent judgment, are right a lot
- Hire and develop the best people
- Able to dive deep and never out of touch with the details of the business
- Strong results orientated approach.
- Think big and have a bias for Action
- Deal well with ambiguity
About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon's global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.
AFT's Pre-Pick Optimization team in Toronto builds the optimization systems that plan picking work in Amazon fulfillment centers worldwide. We group customer orders into efficient units of work, plan that work around delivery promises, and re-plan when conditions change, so orders get out efficiently and on time for customers.
The successful candidate will manage an existing team of software development engineers, partnering with other managers, to design, build, and operate innovative picking software. With a high degree of ownership, you will develop our proprietary solutions end-to-end.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage overall software development life-cycle
- Leader of multiple software engineers in one team
- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
- Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
- Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
- Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization
- Work with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
- Own all operational metrics and support
- Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon
- Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
- Set clear, measurable quality goals for the team in a data-driven way
Amazon Leadership Principles for Amazon leaders:
- Demonstrate excellent judgment, are right a lot
- Hire and develop the best people
- Able to dive deep and never out of touch with the details of the business
- Strong results orientated approach.
- Think big and have a bias for Action
- Deal well with ambiguity
About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon's global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.
AFT's Pre-Pick Optimization team in Toronto builds the optimization systems that plan picking work in Amazon fulfillment centers worldwide. We group customer orders into efficient units of work, plan that work around delivery promises, and re-plan when conditions change, so orders get out efficiently and on time for customers.