Software Development Manager, Japan Store Tech - Beijing

Job Description

Amazon Japan Store Tech is looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead the Search and AI development for Amazon Customers in China.

Key job responsibilities
The responsibility spans across multiple cutting-edge technical areas and critical business domains. The ideal candidate will be innovative, intellectually curious, results-oriented with a history of driving large-scale software solutions, leading teams in project scoping, planning, and delivering to schedule.

About the team
Japan Store Tech builds cutting-edge technologies for Amazon customers in JP and around the world. We aim to be the Best in Japan and Best at Amazon in all aspects of customer experience, selling partner experience, efficiency, and talent development. The team is located in Tokyo and Beijing offices with a group of talented engineers, scientists, technical program managers, and SDMs. If you enjoy working at scale, impacting millions of new Amazon customers, facing new challenges, solving the problems no one ever solved and radically changing how Amazon does commerce, this is the right place for you.

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

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