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Job summary
Whole Foods Market is looking for a passionate and innovative Sr. Software Development Manager to join our newly formed Engineering Services team. This team will be deployed against some of our most complex and challenging projects and will deliver innovative technical solutions that unearth the full potential of the opportunity between Whole Foods Market and Amazon. Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment. This team will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will have the opportunity to redefine an industry while working with different teams across Whole Foods Market and Amazon.
As a leader of leaders, you will hire the best engineering talent and bring them together as a team to innovate and deliver. You will define and build secure, reliable, scalable, fast, cost-effective, and easy-to-use products. You’ll help set – and will be expected to deliver on – aggressive goals for adoption, operational performance, and feature delivery. Your ability to effectively engage and influence senior-level stakeholders within and outside the immediate organization will be crucial for success in this role.
You must have an established background in delivering customer-facing solutions, strong technical skills, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You are a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly, and you are someone who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence within a team.
As a software development leader you will...
· Lead engineers and collaborate with engineering leaders across WFM and Amazon in the design, development, deployment, and ongoing operations of the tools, processes, and services that our customers depend on.
· Contribute directly to our growth by hiring talented and motivated engineers who can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.
· Be responsible for ensuring the tools, processes, and services you own or help deliver are well designed, scalable, highly available, and deliver timely results.
· Work closely with other Whole Foods Market and Amazon leaders and their teams to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership.
· Obsess over protecting customer information, maintaining system performance and availability, and simplifying enterprise scale complexity.
· Regularly dive into architecture, code, test plans, project plans, deployments, and operations to drive excellence on your team and all projects that your team participates in
· Represent the Engineering Services team from both a business and operations perspective to senior leadership on a regular basis.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· Previous experience at Amazon or Amazon subsidiary working on joint projects with Amazon
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical discipline preferred
· 6+ years of experience leading software development teams
· 10+ years of experience in software development and operations
· 5+ years of experience driving new feature prioritization, development, and delivery
· 5+ years of experience building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems as well as mobile applications and SDK development (iOS, Android)
· 3+ years of experience writing and defending business plans/justifications
· Demonstrated experience in delivering software projects using Agile / Scrum methodologies
· A track record of effective communication with executives and non-technical leaders
· Experience conceptualizing and launching new technical solutions within a large organization
· Demonstrated ability to communicate a technology strategy and roadmap based on short and long-term priorities and the corresponding mechanisms required to deliver the desired results.
· Experience hiring and building new technical teams from scratch, including hiring, bootstrapping new development processes, establishing quality metrics and testing methodologies, and setting up automated deployments
· Proven Servant Leader with a high degree of emotional intelligence.
· Ability to reside and work in Austin, TX and flexibility for frequent business travel to Seattle.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
· Deep architectural expertise in the design of large-scale, highly available, low latency, distributed systems and software
· Established skill designing and developing simple solutions to complex, interactive customer experiences
· A strong track record of delivery for large, cross-functional technical projects
· Experience operating large scale systems
· Experience with full-native, hybrid, and pure-web mobile app development
· Entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong program and product management skills
· Experience establishing and evolving engineering development processes
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences