The Amazon Delivery Geospatial team provides smart and efficient mobile maps and navigation experiences that empower delivery drivers world-wide to deliver packages, groceries, and more to customer doorsteps. We are looking for a single threaded leader to take ownership of a core piece of this puzzle and build out a team from the ground-up.

You will be responsible for transforming the experience drivers have as they navigate to customer doorsteps. Your team will be responsible for building the location, orientation, and user activity (e.g., driving, walking) provider that will power visual maps, navigation, and other workflows that rely on accurate signals generated by processing sensor data (e.g., GPS, accelerometer, magnetometer) on the device. Your team will use state of the art map matching, location snapping and other algorithmic techniques to refine sensor inputs and create a highly precise signal for driver facing workflows. You will power the experience that delivery drivers use for majority of their day for both Amazon Flex, a crowd-sourced delivery opportunity for contractors, and Amazon Logistics, a delivery service comprised of small and medium sized businesses who deliver Amazon packages to customer’s doorstep.

You will be expected to build and grow a team that works on real-time sensor processing techniques, ML models for high volume event processing, and novel applications of geospatial data driven location correction techniques. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of technology across both your team and partner teams that enable the end-to-end driver journey.

A successful candidate will have an established background in mobile app development (iOS/Android) and in building highly scalable and mission critical software libraries, with extensive technical knowledge of development techniques and latest practices. They will have a passion for managing engineering talent in a fast-paced environment, the ability to drill down into low-level details when necessary and possess exceptional project management and communication skills.

In this role, you will need to draw from your deep technical expertise to hire and mentor engineers, complete hands-on technical work and provide leadership on complex technical issues. You will manage and be responsible for delivering some of our most strategic technical projects. You will play a critical role in broad business planning and influence our long-term technical and business strategy.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial and innovative person who thrives on solving customer problems. You will be joining a select group of a people making history producing one of the most critical products at Amazon!

Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle of key product sub-systems
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management