Join a dynamic team within Amazon's Payment Products division, focusing on Gift Cards. We are seeking experienced Software Development Managers passionate about leveraging technology to solve significant business challenges and drive impactful customer solutions.

As a leader, you will provide strategic and tactical direction to build best-in-class features and functionality. Your role involves creating mechanisms to boost customer efficiency and innovating new ways to enhance the payment experience, all while capitalizing on Amazon's scale and technological advancements.

Our team operates with the agility of a startup within Amazon, offering considerable flexibility in product and technology direction. Come contribute to building the future of payment experiences.

As a Software Development Manager, you will define the long-term technical vision and influence the technology roadmap for your team, driving architectural optimizations and incremental improvements.

You will confront complex challenges, requiring both deep technical expertise and effective stakeholder communication. Your leadership will empower engineers to deliver impactful solutions, foster their career growth, and cultivate a high-trust, high-performance environment.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with senior leaders on product strategy and roadmaps, leading high-quality software execution against project plans, and architecting robust, scalable technical designs. You will also be instrumental in building and developing a high-performance software development organization through hiring, mentoring, and growing a top-tier team, while owning all operational metrics and support.

We are looking for individuals with a minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering team management and 7 years of overall engineering experience. A strong background of 8+ years leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services is essential.

Candidates should possess a solid understanding of engineering practices and patterns across the full software, hardware, and network development lifecycle. This includes proficiency in coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.

A Bachelor's degree is a fundamental requirement for this role. Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and managing software engineering teams to enhance their skills and effectiveness, along with experience in communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership to gather requirements and articulate product strategy, are highly preferred.