DESCRIPTION

Job summary
The EU Circular Economy (EU CE) team’s vision is to make Amazon the most environmentally and socially responsible place to buy or sell goods and services while continuing to spin the flywheel of cost, selection and speed for customers while “reducing the amount of materials needed and waste created by our products, services and operations”.

To do this, we must follow the fundamental principles of a Circular Economy by maximizing utilization of the materials and minimizing/eliminating waste from our products, packaging, operations and infrastructure at Amazon, all grounded in metrics that will quantify the circularity of our materials flows. EU CE team delivers solutions to support our business to reduce waste, promote product circularity and inform our customers to make sustainability purchase decisions. We drive with science and data, ensuring to evaluate trade-offs such as cost, timeliness and customer impacts.


Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager (SDM), you’ll manage the engineering design and decisions with a team of engineers and product partners. To succeed in this role, you believe in high standards for code quality, code reviews, testing, and operational excellence. You create mechanisms for achieving results and iterating improvements and can lead a team to deliver results in a space that operates like a start-up, with the autonomy to build the right solution from Day One. As a SDM with our team, you will collaborate with other managers on technical design and strategy with a career opportunity for growth that only Amazon can offer.

A day in the life
Inclusive Team Culture
At Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well balanced life—both in and outside of work.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience managing engineers
· Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
· Relevant engineering experience
Bachelor's/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
Minimum 3 years of managing a development team with a focus on career development.
Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
Experience in managing development of UI and backend services.
Experience in working on large scale systems.
A proven record of developing individual contributors.
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum or other SDLC methodologies.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly in regards to presenting complex technical subject matter in a straightforward manner.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts
Experience with developing, releasing and maintaining a large scale services or applications


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