Software Development Manager, Transportation Financial Systems

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000

Job description

Software Development Manager, Transportation Financial Systems

If you are looking for a high impact, high growth greenfield opportunity with interesting engineering challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the role for you. We have a number of untapped high impact engineering and business opportunities with high criticality for Amazon.

What will you own?
You will own the charter responsible for TFS Month End experience and Journal Entry recommendations into Amazon’s financial ledger. Our north star vision is to achieve Zero touch MEC experience for Amazon’s financial reports. 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 10 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 for. 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 cutting-edge technologies in big data, machine learning, real time analytics and 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. We are a very fast-growing org and we aggressively ramping up our team across all engineering roles. 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. We have a large product and tech roadmap and are significantly ramping our tech team to meet the next level of product requirements for Trans Finance.

Minimum Requirements:

1. 3+ years of engineering team management experience
2. 7+ years of engineering experience
3. 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
4. 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
5. Experience partnering with product or program management teams
6. Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
7. 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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