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Join us as we reinvent the books purchase experience of millions of customer across worldwide.

The Amazon Unified Books (Tsundoku) Team is looking for an experienced software development manager who is passionate about developing challenging and elegant software solutions to power customer-centric products, and building a team and product from scratch. You will be leading a team of engineers who work on tier 1 services, centralized data source, tech consolidations, powering innovative features throughout books customer journey . Expect to be challenged!

The ideal candidate will have an established background building and managing large scale systems, great communication skills, a proven track record of building best-in-class engineering teams, and the ability to innovate and deliver in a fast paced environment. This person will also be responsible for ensuring various system-level and business-level SLAs are met, while maintaining an unrelenting focus on quality, throughput and innovation. This person will have regular interactions with various internal business-owners, tech-owners to help set visions, influence and prioritize roadmaps, and managing communication across all stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities

You are a leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and who has a track record of building cohesive and inclusive teams that deliver results.

You also love growing individuals and are invested in the success of each member of your team.

You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, partnering with peers, stakeholders and multiple clients on-boarding to the team's products and services to solve challenging business and technical problems.

You have a solid customer focus and advocate for their needs in product development, roadmap prioritization, requirements and design reviews, and in operational support.

You have a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile development processes.

You pave the way for innovation and know how to think big and invent and simplify. This role requires creative engineering and collaboration with your team.

As a technical leader, you understand the technology your team owns, are willing to dive deep in to technical details, and can provide feedback and technical guidance to your team on design and architecture decisions.

You collaborate with technical leaders and senior developers across the org and beyond to build scalable, distributed systems.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience

• 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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

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

• Master's degree

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.