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Amazon
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Manager, Software Development, TransportationFinancial Systems If you are looking for a high impact, high growthgreenfield opportunity with interesting engineering challenges in afast-paced environment, this is the role for you. We have a numberof untapped high impact engineering and business opportunities withhigh criticality for Amazon. What is the Charter you lead? You willown the charter responsible for TFS Month End experience andJournal Entry recommendations into Amazon’s financial ledger. Ournorth star vision is to achieve Zero touch MEC experience forAmazon’s financial reports. You embrace latest technologies tomanage cross cutting systems with billions of transactions in anautomated manner. This requires building scalable systems that arefar from trivial and involves deep business understanding and techacumen. You will work alongside stakeholders and product managersidentifying cost-saving opportunities, create a technical roadmap,and manage a high-performing team of 6 to 10 engineers achievingour 3 years architectural vision. Who we are? We, TransportationFinancial Systems (TFS) are responsible for building technologiesthat support financial aspects for Amazon transportation. Amazon’stransportation systems get millions of packages to customersworldwide faster and cheaper while providing world-class customerexperience – from checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Oursoftware systems include services that handle tens of thousands ofrequests per second and make decisions to pay billions of dollars ayear and ensure that transportation's liabilities and revenues arecorrectly accounted for. With rapid expansion into new geographies,we have an opportunity to build software that scales not only withvolume but also with the business models. We leverage cutting-edgetechnologies in big data, machine learning, real-time analytics,and high volume, low latency, high availability services. TFS is a100+ tech team across eight different platforms. We deal withproblems of scale. Billions of dollars of spend is automatedthrough our platforms and pipelines. We are a very fast-growingorganization and we are aggressively ramping up our team across allengineering roles. This position offers the opportunity tocollaborate with our global product teams and customers across theworld and other tech teams in the organization as we raise the barin delivering innovation. We have a large product and tech roadmapand are significantly ramping our tech team to meet the next levelof product requirements for Trans Finance. Key job responsibilitiesWhat will you own? • You will own managing a team of 6-10developers within Transport Financial System. Your primaryresponsibility is to ensure growth of SDEs reporting to you vialong term technical solves built by your team. • You will ownroadmap execution for your tech area, in close collaboration withTFS Product Management and internal clients/stakeholders. • Youwill own implementing company and org wide policies for health andsecurity of our systems, and for managing Operational Load inrunning these systems at Amazon scale. • You are responsible fordriving innovation and next-gen solution vision for your area incollaboration with Sr SDEs and PEs. What interesting engineeringproblem will you solve? • You will own building a high scalablesystem that can handle billions of transactions for estimated(manifest) and actual (invoiced) shipping cost of Amazon. • Youwill own the charter responsible for TFS Month End experience andJournal Entry recommendations into Amazon’s financial ledger. • Youwill build long term solutions for handling large amounts of dataand reporting/analytics to meet stakeholders' needs. What largescale program opportunities will you have? • You will own thepartner relationship with our stakeholders and business partners toinfluence the roadmap, and deliver as per agreed upon plan. • Youwill work closely with principal product managers and businessleaders in prioritizing work and ensure timely and quality deliveryof those. • You will ensure open issues and hotly debated topicsare surfaced in the right internal/external forums to safeguardyour team's roadmap to deliver the most important things for thecustomers. What ‘Think Big’ exists for you? • You have theopportunity to eliminate manual processes and influence Amazonfinancials with zero touch month end closure. This will requirebuilding GenAI and engineering solutions to provide automatedposting recommendations. • You will build long term solutions forhandling large amounts of data and reporting/analytics of theplatform. Feel free to reach out to akhilsht@ for more queries onthis opportunity. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 7+ years of engineeringexperience - 2+ years of engineering team management experience -8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tierweb services experience - Knowledge of engineering practices andpatterns for the full software/hardware/networks development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source controlmanagement, build processes, testing, certification, and livesiteoperations. - Experience partnering with product or programmanagement teams. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience incommunicating with users, other technical teams, and seniorleadership to collect requirements, describe software productfeatures, technical designs, and product strategy. - Experience inrecruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing teams ofSoftware Engineers to improve their skills, and make them moreeffective, product software engineers. Our inclusive cultureempowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation oradjustment during the application and hiring process, includingsupport for the interview or onboarding process, please visit thislink for more information. Posted: February 24, 2025 (Updated 41minutes ago) Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority /Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation/ Age. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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