Head - Business Unit - Engineering - eCommerce

Job Description:

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. Transportation Financial Systems is responsible for building technologies which support financial aspects for Amazon transportation. Our software systems include services that handle 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, innovations in supply chain, delivery models and customer experience, increasingly complex transportation network, ever expanding selection of products and growing number of shipments worldwide, 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.

As the development manager, you will have technical ownership of platform components related to transportation financials. You'll lead a talented and nimble team of engineers. Responsibilities include direct management of 5+ engineers, process and quality of service improvements, strategic planning, project management for software within the team, and management of resources across teams. Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery.

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

- Exhibits excellent judgment

- Hires and develops great people

- Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)

- Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology

- Expects and requires innovation of her/his team

- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others

- Strong results orientation

- Thinks big

Basic Requirement-

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline

- 12+ years of relevant engineering experience

- 4+ years people management experience

- Experience with OOD and object oriented languages

Experience that will make you successful in this role

- Deep hands-on technical expertise

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Strong business and technical vision

- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

- A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time

- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions

Basic Qualifications

Basic Requirement -

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline

- 12+ years of relevant engineering experience

- 4+ years people management experience

- Experience with OOD and object oriented languages