DESCRIPTION
Amazon Flex is a global business unit whose mission is to enable fast delivery speeds and absorb variability in the business, at any time of year through scalable, innovative, and low-cost operations using independent contractor Delivery Partners (DPs). The Amazon Flex business was built to support Amazon's growth and meet customer expectations for fast deliveries across all Amazon supported businesses. The program gives Delivery Partners the opportunity to earn money by delivering packages to Amazon customers.
The Amazon Flex Recruiting tech team is focused on bringing in the right number of Flex DPs to meet the business demands while also enabling a good DP experience. Their customers are Flex DPs and internal stakeholders such as the Flex Marketing team.
As a Software Development Manager on the Recruiting team, you will be instrumental in bringing enhanced automation and consistency to Flex DP recruitment processes. You will manage your team's roadmap while orchestrating the design, development, testing, deployment and operations of multiple backend services and tools. You will work with partner tech teams to define team boundaries and define the Recruiting space. To be successful in this position, you will need to be a hands-on technical manager who understands and sets a high bar for all parts of the software development and deployment life-cycle. You will need to simultaneously deliver features for customers while ensuring progress on the right architectural vision.
A successful manager in this space will have an interest in the business metrics and capacity needs of the Flex business while serving as a bridge between tech and product. They will bring knowledge around the importance of test automation, and encourage a culture of curiosity and learning within the team.
Key job responsibilities
A successful candidate will be responsible for the end to end ownership of a technology team and its direct service dependencies, and setting the technical vision for developing our systems to serve our customer's needs. The candidate will have proven ability to hire and develop a diverse software engineering team that is customer-focused, team oriented, and have the ability to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. We aim to create a highly technical and entrepreneurial culture and you will help us foster that. The candidate will show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the north star vision.
A day in the life
You might start your day by having a 1:1 with one of your team members. They've been doing a great job on their recent project, and you want to give them some positive feedback and discuss how they've been progressing on their career goals.
Next you're off to a technical design review meeting setup by a partner team. The teams are working together to launch a critical feature, and the group will be reviewing the integration pieces of the design today.
After that, it's the daily standup meeting. One of your team's SDEs is blocked waiting on some UX mockups, and so you follow-up offline to make sure they get unblocked.
Next, you spend some time working on the upcoming year's operational plan document. There are some opportunities you've noticed to improve the system, and you want to write them down to get buy-in from the team's stakeholders and leadership.
After that, you spend a little bit of time looking at the tickets the team received this week. You notice a trend of new tickets related to a service which recently had a rollout, and you make a note to ask about it in the next weekly team Operational Excellence review.
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
- 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
- Experience in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.