DirecciónDo you want to reach the next level in your career as Software Development Manager? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch technologies?
Join us and you'll help millions of customers to discover the best from a multi-billion product selection!
The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide.
We do this by combining technology, science, innovation and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting edge tools for marketers.
You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising.
Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe.
To succeed in this role, you should be a leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and who has a track record of building strong teams that deliver results.
You have a strong sense of ownership, passion to provide great customer experience and excellent troubleshooting skills even when in high-pressure situations.
Experience with high-availability eCommerce services will be very applicable and helpful.
By joining this team, your will be based in our new Development Center in Madrid and Barcelona, in Spain. These are vibrant cities that have both, a deep pool of local talent and a strategic location to attract developers from all over the world.
A day in the life
- Hiring and developing an engineering team that is responsible for design, development, and operations
- Managing and mentoring engineers, ensuring organizational health and career development within your organization
- Participating in strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives and define technical direction, managing resource allocation between multiple engineering teams
- Leading design reviews for engineers, and driving feedback on architecture, design and operational issues
- Working with Applied Scientists to deliver machine learning based solutions
- Learning with us as we defining the future of Amazon’s Marketing and Merchandising.
About the team
We believe in rapid development and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience.
You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement, both onsite and offsite.
The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built services.
There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at DiscoTec, we embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We host frequent learning experiences to ensure DEI is consistently treated as a priority.
We actively recruit people from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace, and take steps to ensure employees have a sense of belonging, value, and opportunity.
Our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.
The perks of being an Amazon employee don't stop at collaborating with great people on exciting and innovative projects.
Amazon’s benefits support the needs of our diverse workforce and their family members, no matter what stage they’re at in their life or career.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Barcelona, B, ESP Madrid, M, ESP
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience managing engineers
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience in engineering
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
- 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
