If you are looking for a high impact, high growth opportunity with interesting engineering challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the role for you. We have a number of untapped high impact engineering and business opportunities with high criticality for Amazon.
What will you own?
You will own the TFS Dynamic Shipping Cost Prediction (DSCP) analytics, Sustainability and externalization of the platform for non-Amazon vendors as a commercial Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. You embrace the latest technologies to manage cross-cutting systems with billions of transactions in an automated manner. This requires building scalable systems that are far from trivial and involves deep business understanding and tech acumen. You will work alongside stakeholders and product managers identifying cost-saving opportunities, create a technical roadmap, and manage a high-performing team of 8 to 12 engineers achieving our 3-year architectural vision.
Who we are?
We, Transportation Financial Systems (TFS), are responsible for building technologies that support financial aspects for Amazon transportation. Amazon’s transportation systems get millions of packages to customers worldwide faster and cheaper while providing world-class customer experience – from checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Our software systems include services that handle tens of thousands of requests per second and make decisions to pay billions of dollars a year and ensure that transportation's liabilities and revenues are correctly accounted for. With rapid expansion into new geographies, we have an opportunity to build software that scales not only with volume but also with the business models. We leverage cutting-edge technologies in big data, machine learning, real-time analytics, and high-volume, low-latency, high-availability services.
TFS is a 100+ tech team across eight different platforms. We deal with problems of scale. Billions of dollars of spend is automated through our platforms and pipelines. We are a very fast-growing organization and we are aggressively ramping up our team across all engineering roles. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with our global product teams and customers across the world and other tech teams in the organization as we raise the bar in delivering innovation.
We have a large product and tech roadmap and are significantly ramping our tech team to meet the next level of product requirements for Trans Finance.
Key job responsibilities
What will you own?
- You will own managing a team of 8-12 developers within Transport Financial System. Your primary responsibility is to ensure growth of SDEs reporting to you via long-term technical solutions built by your team.
- You will own the roadmap for your tech area, in close collaboration with TFS Product Management and internal clients/stakeholders.
- You will own implementing company and org-wide policies for health and security of our systems, and for managing Operational Load in running these systems at Amazon scale.
- You are responsible for driving innovation and next-gen solution vision for your area in collaboration with Sr SDEs and PEs.
What interesting engineering problem will you solve?
- You will own building a highly scalable system that can handle billions of transactions for estimated (manifest) and actual (invoiced) shipping cost of Amazon.
- You will own the TFS Dynamic Shipping Cost Prediction (DSCP) analytics, Sustainability and externalization of the platform for non-Amazon vendors as a commercial Software as a Service (SaaS) offering.
- You will build long-term solutions for handling large amounts of data and reporting/analytics to meet stakeholders' needs.
What large scale program opportunities will you have?
- You will own the partner relationship with our stakeholders and business partners to influence the roadmap, and deliver as per the agreed-upon plan.
- You will work closely with principal product managers and business leaders in prioritizing work and ensure timely and quality delivery of those.
- You will ensure open issues and hotly debated topics are surfaced in the right internal/external forums to safeguard your team's roadmap to deliver the most important things for the customers.
What ‘Think Big’ opportunities exist for you?
- You have the opportunity to eliminate manual processes and influence Amazon’s pricing decision by improving WW shipping cost completeness for ASIN profitability calculations and train ML models to automate those decisions for the future.
- You will build long-term solutions for handling large amounts of data and reporting/analytics and externalization of the platform.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 2+ years of engineering team management 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 live site 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
