Software Development Manager, JP Manga
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Love Manga or Comics? Interested in creating a great customer experience for Amazon’s 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 Seattle office to own 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
Key job responsibilities
- 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
- Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
- Work closely with Product Managers, Sr Manager, UX across Manga.