Builder Lead, Ring.com Ecommerce Team

DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for a passionate Software Development Manager to lead our e-commerce website and platform. We need someone who can support our current features while driving innovation for new features and marketing efforts. To excel in this role, you'll need to be a seasoned leader with experience in leading software teams. You'll be making crucial decisions on design, staffing, requirements, and timelines, balancing risks and trade offs.

In this position, you'll collaborate with partner with local and worldwide teams to shape the future of Ring and Blink e-commerce. You'll lead our front end web engineering efforts, and support bringing new consumer products to market and interacting with teams across Ring, Blink, and Amazon.

We believe distance shouldn't separate us from what we care about. That's why we're on a mission to keep people close to what's important. As our Software Development Manager, you'll play a key role in this mission, always striving to create the best products for our customers.

If you're passionate about technology, enjoy tackling complex challenges, and want to make a real impact on home security, we want to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead a team delivering features and bug-fixes for Blink and Ring e-commerce.
- Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software.
- Assure the right strategy and architecture is applied by the team.
- Work across teams to manage dependencies and align on engineering work and timelines.
- Collaborate with business, marketing, and other internal teams to define and own features.
- Proactively solve day-to-day challenges and exercise sound judgment.
- Remove barriers to execution for the team.
- Define and execute process improvements to allow the team to improve over time.
- Mentor, hire, and retain excellent engineers.
- Drive best practices and engineering excellence.

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 web applications with React and modern web technologies
- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Irvine - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually