The Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT) powers the physical engine at the heart of Amazon. We are responsible for scalable and innovative solutions to enable fulfillment of millions of items every day across the globe. Our team owns the charter to make the AFT WMS more accessible and flexible for emerging markets and businesses. Join the team if you like to build scalable solutions that solves complex business problems and deliver strong business impact. Our teams are located in Bellevue & Austin.

We are leading several key initiatives and are looking for a senior engineering leader who can lead a growing team to deliver them. The ideal candidate will have a combination of strong business understanding and broad technical knowledge and experience. This person is someone who enjoys understanding a variety of business problems, come up with technical solution options to solve them, and can influence senior business and technical leaders to get these solutions delivered. If you like working independently in such a setup to deliver critical business goals, then this is the place for you.

Key job responsibilities
* Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
* Manage multiple high performing teams, possibly even a remote team with global scope
* Manage overall software development life-cycle via your leaders
* Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments
* Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
* Work closely with Sr. Engineers and Team Leaders to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
* Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization
* Interface with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
* Propose and implement new projects or recommend system improvements.
* Own all operational metrics and support
* Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon
* Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
* Set clear, measurable quality goals for an organization in a data-driven way


A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it. Learn more about AFT! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christina-bencho-bost-26458622_amazon-fulfillment-technologies-overview-activity-7337844856498642944-75wt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACdjsIBSWIq6-j6WQJNgSV_WUdh-p2HTiM

External Fulfillment
AFT’s External Fulfillment team builds flexible, scalable solutions specifically designed for the needs of Amazon’s emerging markets and businesses.