Description

Amazon Prime’s Science organization leads the Research & Development towards innovation for Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is the backbone of Amazon’s consumer business and aspires to be the world’s most engaging, satisfying, and loved membership program, driving growth and profitability. The program serves over 200 million members across 25 countries and is key to Amazon’s customer growth and engagement. Prime Science innovates in Artificial Intelligence (inc. Gen AI) and Economics, to develop algorithms and systems for automated marketing, personalization, targeting, and decisioning. Within the engineering group in Prime Science, we develop world class solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems at Amazon scale. You will work alongside world class scientists to build a suite of fully automated, scalable and robust products driven by the engineering systems you lead.

In this role, you will lead a dedicated team of software engineers in building software that scales the unique science WW and across Amazon. If you have experience leading a team in building and supporting applications at scale or are passionate about the space and would like to learn with us, we want to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead teams to design and build science products that scale to 100's of millions of customers

• Work alongside a multi-disciplinary team to deliver with high quality on hard problems

• Interface with internal customers to understand requirements, set priorities, and communicate direction and progress.

• Recruit, hire, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers

• Foster career growth and a strong team culture.

• Own all operational metrics and support for your team’s software.

• Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver tech requirements on time and with a high-degree of precision and quality.

A day in the life

You will set the vision for team and ensure every day the team is working towards the vision together. You will work directly with leading scientists to develop scalable solutions to enable science into decision making across Prime and across Amazon. You will work with stakeholders to communication and prioritize the most impactful features. You will mentor and grow your team into a high performing team delivering outsized value for our customers.

About the team

The Prime Science engineering team, under the Prime Science organization is working to working to deliver science products that impact 100's of millions customers world wide. We advance the state of the art on science systems to unlock a delightful customer experience. This is a unique opportunity to work in a start up like mode in Amazon on new science.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience

• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience

• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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 livesite 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

• Experience building products using machine learning, artificial intelligence and/or economics. A degree in a data science, statistics, math or related fields to machine learning.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.