Software Development Manager, Transportation Financial Systems

DESCRIPTION

What will you own?

You will own a suite of products that drive complex business and engineering logic for managing financial accounting for ~$100B annual spend. These solutions leverage various AWS technologies and AI capabilities to solve large-scale complex problems. The systems demand non-trivial engineering, requiring deep business understanding and strong technical acumen. You will collaborate with stakeholders and product managers to identify opportunities for improving accuracy, expanding the solution across multiple geographies, and defining the technical roadmap. Additionally, you will lead and manage a high-performing team of 7–10 engineers, driving progress toward our three-year 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 and paid to our partners timely. With rapid expansion into new geographies and production solutions, we have an opportunity to build software that scales not only with volume but also with the business models. We leverage latest technologies in machine learning and GenAI to support high volume, low latency, high availability services.

TFS is 200+ members tech team across eight different platforms. We deal with problems of scale. Billions of dollars of spend is automated through our platforms and pipelines. 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.

Key job responsibilities

What will you own?

You will own managing a team of 7-10 engineers within Transport Financial System. Your primary responsibility is to manage diverse initiatives and enable your team to deliver long term technical solves

You will own roadmap execution for your tech area, in close collaboration with Product Management and customer

You are responsible for driving innovation and next-gen solution vision for your area in collaboration with Sr SDEs and PEs

You are responsible for managing growth of SDEs reporting to you through structured performance management and career growth plan

What interesting engineering problem will you solve?

You will own complex systems that manage financial accounting and enable the regulatory and compliance goals

You will own building high scalable systems that can handle billions of transactions from carrier manifests and invoices delivering logistic services

You will drive accounting systems architectural evolution, while getting the opportunity to influence tech decisions across multiple orgs

What large scale program opportunities you will have?

You will own the partner relationship with our stakeholders and business partners to influence the roadmap, and deliver as per agreed upon plan

You will work closely with principal product managers and business leaders in prioritizing work and ensure timely and quality delivery of those.

You will ensure open issues and hotly debated topics are surfaced in right internal/external forums to safeguard your team's roadmap to deliver most important things for the customers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

3+ years of engineering team management experience

7+ years of engineering experience

8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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

Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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

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