Software Development Manager

Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable financial systems that support Amazon's current and future growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Does the prospect of working with top engineering talent get you charged up? If so, Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is for you!

FinTech at Amazon is an organization where people, technology and innovation come together to build products and solve problems for the broader finance organization.

- The FinTech team owns the technical platform responsible for billions of dollars of payments each month to Amazon vendors across the globe. We build and utilize services and applications using AWS and other cutting edge technologies such as serverless application development, large scale event and data processing, machine learning for anomaly detection and automation at scale. We partner with financial institutions and other Amazon teams to leverage the best in class features that the banks and finance technology companies have to offer. We delight our payees by paying them when they want and how they want. We build software Applications that facilitate global payments transactions worth billions (USD) annually that rival the complexity and scope of dedicated payments fin-tech companies.
- The systems we build enable us to provide a wide variety of payments including real time payments, email, wires and international cross-border FX payments. Our technology also provides end to end payment tracking, bank account validation and payee communication.

If you are passionate about moving real money, paying people on time, innovating payments, using the latest and greatest technologies to help scale a system with 100% up-time, we have the opportunity for you!

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team of software engineers in our Gurugram office. Our ideal candidate is customer focused and enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time. You will be a passionate builder of talent and teams. As a Manager within Finance Technology you will help set the vision for a suite of products that automates payments and improves visibility of millions of payables and receivables processed by Amazon to our customers and partners.

Software Development Managers at Amazon are owners. You will own your team, your roadmap and the end to end customer experience. You will drive engineering and operational excellence in your team and build delightful products for your customers. You will partner with business stakeholders and will strive to earn their trust. You will work directly with your customers and will constantly innovate on their behalf. You will be a great people manager and enjoy working with diverse mindsets.

In this role you will be responsible for creating truly innovative finance systems that support Amazon's global footprint. You will ensure the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. The systems we own are responsible for trillions of financial events and payment flows that would rank among the largest countries in the world by GDP. You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that software is designed to be highly-available, dynamically scalable, and resilient to continuity threats.

Key job responsibilities
As a technology leader, you will drive architectural and design choices and invent new features. We have a team culture that encourages innovation where developers and management alike take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery. Successful candidates will be high-bandwidth leaders who can cut through the noise, simplify relentlessly, deliver results, and build great teams around themselves.

Key Responsibilities:
Develop and own product vision, strategy and road map.
Build and manage a team of software engineers.
Execute projects within an Agile/Scrum environment
Participate in business reviews with executive leadership and provide status updates.

Basic qualifications

- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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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