From a garage-based start-up in 1995 to a top global brand today, Amazon has evolved and made its way into our lives. Amazon Retail is at the heart of that journey, offering a world-class shopper experience and an unparalleled customer service. An integral part of Amazon Retail is Promotions, which powers world-wide events such as Prime Day and Black Friday, and offers great discounts on great products to the Amazon shopper every day. In WW Promotions, we are passionate about building well-designed, robust and scalable software to deliver inspiring a user experience that delight our customers. We offer the opportunity to work with cutting-edge platform technologies and tools, on innovative and sophisticated features that customers love, as part of a team of passionate and experienced professionals in the multi-cultural environment of the Amazon Development Center in Berlin.

A cornerstone in providing great promotions to shoppers is enabling and supporting the promotion owners and the selling partners to create and manage high-quality promotions. WW Promotions is looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the engineering team that owns the services responsible for the promotion workflows, and collaborates with the organizations responsible for interfacing with promotion owners and selling partners for sourcing high-quality promotions. As the right candidate for this position, you will lead a team of 6-8 engineers, providing vision and direction to build Amazon-scale systems. Your team will be responsible for designing, building, testing and launching innovative new Promotions features and services that customers will love. You will partner closely with geographically dispersed business, product and engineering teams throughout Amazon to define and execute against our roadmap on an aggressive schedule. You should have a proven track record of mentoring and earning the trust of engineers. You look forward to working in a high quality, international and diverse environment.

Key job responsibilities
* You will work closely with Promotions team Product Managers to shape up the future of the team.
* You will work closely with other teams in the WW Promotions organization to define the upcoming projects and deliver them cooperatively.
* You will manage projects, together with team Project Managers, to impact thousands of sellers and millions of customers.
* You will be responsible for growth of the team members.
* You will insist on highest standards to keep the operational excellence at a high bar, and ensure team assets work smoothly during High Velocity Events like Prime Day. You will prepare your team for High Velocity Events and be able to act as a key leader in Amazon in managing these events as a key member of Deals team.
* You will be working with Senior Managers and experienced engineers inside and outside of your immediate team.
* You will work with the team to create a vision that uses the right technologies for the customer problems we are trying to address, and will learn about cutting-edge technologies.