Software Development Manager III, Geospatial

Overview

Address Intelligence and Experience (AIX) team is part of Amazon Last Mile Technology and is responsible for ensuring best-in-class delivery experience for customers who shop on Amazon. The AIX team does this by learning all it can about every possible delivery location on the planet and using these inputs to drive faster delivery speed, lower cost and with most delivery convenience all at once and at scale.Would you like to make an impact to each package delivered by Amazon? Our team aims to make every address printed on an Amazon shipping label accurate and deliverable, while ensuring we have additional intelligence such as access codes, location photos, geocodes, business hours, and customer delivery preferences. To achieve this worldwide, we focus on building comprehensive address data for the regions, and on developing sophisticated ML based software that recognizes and validates customer addresses, learns from historical data as well as through crowd sourced intelligence. While all our platforms and technology have to be global and scalable, our solutions are also customized for each region given that addresses are structured and managed very differently across countries.In this role you will be part of a world class software engineering team which works on some of the most complex technology problems. You will be responsible to drive system architecture, lead the development and launch of core product features. You will have an opportunity of exploring full stack development to build multiple Customer facing experiences on Retail website that enable millions of Customers to provide how Amazon delivers the shipments to them. You will provide technical leadership to the team, drive best practices, mentor other engineers and drive continuous improvements in engineering and operational excellence. You will lead a 2-pizza team who will lead multiple architectural initiatives.Key job responsibilitiesAs a software development manager, you will lead a 2-pizza team leading multiple architectural initiatives in the Geospatial realm. You will work with multiple stakeholders and partner teams while working on deep big data problems.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of engineering experience3+ years of engineering team management experience8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experienceKnowledge 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 operationsExperience partnering with product or program management teamsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategyExperience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineersOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected ..... full job details .....