Job description

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Do you want to develop the next generation Payments products for MENA's fastest growing e-commerce company? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment solving complex technical problems and delivering innovative solutions? If so, join us on Amazon Payment Services . We are a group of talented technical professionals that are empowered and driven to build innovative best-in-class experiences for millions of Amazon customers. The Amazon Payment Services team is responsible to build product and technology solutions to build great payments products and experiences using various technologies to solve complex problems related to distributed systems, scalable architecture, machine learning, and algorithms. About Amazon Payment Services, an Amazon Company: We serve the needs of online shoppers in all Arabic speaking and surrounding countries through our trusted, secure payment network that gives everyone the opportunity to shop online safely and easily. We build trust between buyers and online sellers by enabling consumers to transact online using the payment options they prefer with complete security and peace of mind while supporting the most popular payment methods available globally. Amazon Payment Services is regional expert in payment processing technology and solutions across major markets in the GCC & Levant countries, operating in UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar.
We are looking for a highly-motivated and enthusiastic senior leader of software development. You will be joining a fast growing, quickly evolving customer experience team, so the ability to build a team and impact new product development is critical. If you are the right candidate, you will possess a strong program management and engineering background, will have demonstrated experience leading large projects and cross-functional teams. You have a well-rounded technical background. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and resolve ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. As a site-leader, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
The leader in this role will lead and mentor their team and drive the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of technologies to support our goals. You're results-oriented – you rally your team to meet their commitments to each other and to customers. Setting the strategy is not enough. Seeing your solutions ship, scale and make a measurable impact on customers’ lives fuels you. All while having fun. If you have the technical chops, the leadership skills, the business savvy, and a passion for customers then this role is for you.
Key job responsibilities
• Raise the bar on technical excellence, show thought leadership, and communicate well to different audiences.
• Oversee the management of a team of engineers to plan, design, and deliver complex systems
• Be a leader of leaders, mentoring and developing managers.
• Work closely with business leaders to translate functional requirements into technical requirements.
• Establish a consistent project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations, for business partners in multiple geographies.
• Be responsible for mentoring and developing engineers.
• Represent the technical organization and evangelize the work to senior leadership.
• Lead design reviews, providing direction and feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as system integration, performance, and scalability issues
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
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