Join the Selling Partner Identity Verification (SPIV) team at Amazon, dedicated to fostering a safe and trustworthy marketplace for customers and businesses. Our mission involves leveraging technology, analytics, and science to build trust as we scale. SPIV, through its Seller Verification program, aims to simplify global seller registration, verify identities rigorously, and utilize automation for accuracy and speed, thereby enabling marketplace growth.

This role offers the chance to lead a team of engineers, making a significant impact on systems, business, and customers. You will tackle challenges that have the potential to reshape the e-commerce landscape. We operate at a fast pace, embracing AGILE best practices and the latest technologies to deliver software iteratively.

Lead a team of world-class software engineers and technical program managers, making critical design decisions for product features and technology choices. Develop and execute the long-term strategy for settlement platforms, translating it into an actionable roadmap. Build and manage teams responsible for designing and delivering scalable, extensible distributed systems to solve complex business problems. Scope resource and budget requirements, effectively justifying them to senior leadership and finance. Maintain a consistent focus on operational excellence and system security.

Possess a strong technical foundation enabling leadership of engineering teams and sound decision-making in product features and technology. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the entire systems development lifecycle, including various methodologies like agile, waterfall, and iterative approaches. Exhibit experience in developing long-term platform strategies and creating achievable roadmaps. Proven ability in building and managing teams that deliver scalable, extensible distributed systems. Familiarity with scoping and justifying resource and budget needs to senior stakeholders. Commitment to operational excellence and system security. Experience with open-source technologies, object-oriented design, and agile development.

Basic Qualifications: - Minimum 7 years of engineering experience. - Minimum 3 years of engineering team management experience. - Minimum 8 years leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services. - Knowledge of engineering practices across the full software/hardware/networks development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, certification, and live-site operations. - Experience collaborating with product or program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in communicating requirements, product features, technical designs, and strategy to users, technical teams, and senior leadership. - Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and managing software engineering teams to enhance their skills and effectiveness.