Key job responsibilities
Own the technical vision and architecture for Amazon time-off management and pay policy execution — designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems that compute accurately across thousands of policy configurations and regional regulations.
Build and lead a high-performing team — recruit, coach, and retain top talent; mentor engineers across levels.
Raise the engineering excellence bar — drive best practices in code quality, design reviews, testing strategies, CI/CD, and documentation to ensure long-term maintainability and developer velocity.
Drive operational excellence — own service health, on-call, monitoring, and post-mortem rigor for pay-critical systems.
Define and prioritize the product roadmap — make crisp trade-offs between new capability development, tech debt reduction, and operational hardening in partnership with product, payroll, and compliance stakeholders.
Drive cross-team alignment across TimeHub, Scheduling, DLS, WSTT, PXT, and Operations — removing blockers and ensuring seamless delivery across the time-to-pay pipeline.
About the team
We build low-latency, highly scalable policy computation and storage layers that power the full spectrum of Time-Off and Pay processing across multiple businesses and regions. We use cutting edge technologies from AWS and continuously challenge ourselves in building the right solution.
7+ years of engineering experience
3+ years of engineering team management experience
8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
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