Amazon World Wide Grocery Store tech (WWGST) Org’s vision is to be the most loved grocer on earth, saving customers time and money. As part of Culinary Tech within WWGST org, we focus on building automation for the prepared food production for both Store Kitchens and a new formats of centralized Kitchen facilities serving tasty/safe food to our customers. We invest in building unified tech primitives for recipe management and food production serving all banners i,e Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh and Amazon GO. We are looking for a Software Development Manager with expertise and passion to imagine, build and develop innovative products to accelerate the Kitchen Facility Automation. This is a high growth space and a big opportunity that needs an entrepreneurial minded product creator. The ideal candidate will be curious, have attention to detail, be energized by challenging entrepreneurial environment, be comfortable thinking big while also diving deep.

If you are looking for an opportunity to lead strong development teams and build creative technology solutions that positively impact hundreds of millions of customers, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!
As a Software Development manager, you will identify, hire and build world-class teams of Software Engineers to define, drive and execute on this vision. You will initiate processes that allow these teams to collaborate with local as well as global teams with a high degree of efficiency. You will develop teams of highly motivated and talented individuals that can collaborate with Project Managers, Product Managers and Software Engineers across the company on this high impact initiative. You will design, build and own features and programs that will serve tasty and safe food to our customers where they are.

Key job responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITES:
- Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact
- Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities that helps them succeed in their business goals.
- Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
- Project management - prioritization , planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
- Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services
- Career management and development of direct reports
He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment where time to hit market is super critical. They would need to also balance technical leadership with savvy business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.