Software Development Manager, JP Manga - Tokyo

Job Description

Love Manga or Comics? Interested in creating a great customer experience for Amazon’s digital Manga business? The Japan Manga business focuses on creating a great customer experience for Manga fans to discover, acquire and read digital Manga.

We are looking for a seasoned leader for a team of Software Development Engineers in our Tokyo office to own Kindle Manga services and features on Amazon Japan website across all platforms (desktop, mobile browser, mobile shopping app). A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences as well as backend services, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, managing and growing developers, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

In this team you will have the opportunity to:
- Solve challenging problems at significant scale
- Be responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
- Develop the long-term strategy for your programs and translate that into an achievable road map/action plan
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Tokyo, 13, JPN

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree
- 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 in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

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https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/passivesmoking
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https://www.amazon.jobs/jp/landing_pages/passivesmoking

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