Lead the establishment and growth of a cutting-edge engineering team focused on EU Off-Amazon Selection (EU OAS) in Hyderabad. This role involves building foundational systems for discoverability and shoppability using advanced technologies like large language models and agentic AI.

You will have the unique opportunity to shape the technical direction, hire a diverse team of software development, machine learning, and support engineers, and drive innovation across Amazon's European stores. Collaborate with a dedicated platform team to leverage existing Amazon-scale infrastructure and accelerate development.

This is a chance to tackle complex challenges in catalog management, discovery, and commerce systems, ensuring accuracy and eligibility for customers across multiple languages and currencies within the EU regulatory framework.

- Recruit, nurture, and lead the founding engineering team, setting exceptionally high standards for talent. - Define and own the technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for catalog, discovery, and commerce systems, scaling them across Amazon's European markets. - Develop and manage production systems that harness large language models and AI at global scale. - Foster an AI-native team culture from inception, integrating AI coding agents into all phases of development and operations. - Ensure operational excellence through proactive monitoring, robust health metrics, and regular reviews. - Transform ambiguous, cross-functional challenges into actionable plans with clear ownership and timelines, guiding strategic decisions through design, roadmaps, and business reviews.

- A minimum of 3 years in engineering team management. - A minimum of 7 years of overall engineering experience. - At least 8 years of experience leading the development of multi-tier web services. - Profound knowledge of software/hardware/networks development lifecycle practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, certification, and live site operations. - Proven experience partnering effectively with product or program management teams. - Demonstrated experience in designing and architecting new and existing systems, focusing on patterns, reliability, and scalability.