Software Development Manager, Payments - MENA and APAC Affordability

Payments power the world — and we're building the technology behind it. If you thrive on managing teams that design scalable services, love collaborating with sharp minds, and want your work to shape how millions of customers transact across the globe, this is your team.

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who thrives in agile, fast-paced environments and has a proven ability to manage internal stakeholders and external partners across multiple time zones. The ideal candidate brings strong people management skills with a track record of growing and developing talent. Experience in the payments domain is strongly preferred.

• Key job responsibilities
• People

- Lead and grow a team of 10+ SDEs, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and professional development

• Projects
• - Drive delivery of multiple high-visibility yearly goals
• - Partner with Product and Ops stakeholders to shape the team roadmap

Product

• - Own and drive Operational and Engineering Excellence goals for the team
• - Manage existing services while architecting new solutions for upcoming launches across geographies

• About the team
• We are the MAP (Middle East and Asia Pacific) Affordability team under International Emerging Stores Payments (IESP) organisation. Our vision for the organisation is to make payments trusted, convenient, and rewarding through strategic execution across multiple markets and regions. Following on this vision, we're not just processing transactions — we're reimagining how Installment products are built at Amazon, making affordable payment options accessible to every customer across MENA and APAC regions. As part of this process, we're building engineering teams to move fast, think big, and turn that vision into reality.

Basic qualifications

• - 4+ years of engineering team management experience
• - 7+ years of engineering 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Preferred qualifications

• - 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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