The Team: Whole Foods Market Enterprise Back Office Systems and Support (EBOSS) is the team that designs, builds, and owns the bespoke and packaged software that powers business capabilities in the TMS (HR), Accounting, Finance, Real Estate, Timekeeping, Labor Planning, and Legal domains across all Whole Foods Market (WFM). Our primary goal is delivering customer-obsessed and operationally excellent systems and services that enable WFM to nourish people and the planet. We create win-win partnerships with third-party software suppliers, leverage Amazon Native Technology (ANT) to develop self-service tools that empower Team Members (TM) to improve the customer experience, build systems and services that provide data for operational accountability, and create automation for operational excellence. Our customers include all Team Members, partner teams within WFM business operations, and Amazon teams.

The Role: Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment. As a Software Development Manager, you will help tackle a diverse landscape of business, technical & team challenges. We are an early-stage initiative, and you will play an active role in translating business requirements into concrete systems and prototyping concepts, and working with technology leaders within the team and across the business.

The Work: You will design, develop and deploy reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale. You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Java, Linux, and AWS services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will have the opportunity to redefine an industry while working with different teams across Amazon and Whole Foods Market. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on many people. Most importantly you’ll be contributing to our Higher Purpose of Nourishing People and the Planet!

Key job responsibilities
· You are passionate about defining and creating brand new products and services that will radically improve customer experiences in key strategic areas.
· You are able to translate business objectives into technical solutions understanding how it will impact and align with overall strategy.
· You love to explore unknown territory and invent simple, beautiful solutions to complex business and usability problems, sometimes with no clear precedent in today’s world.
· You are highly collaborative, with a proven record of working closely with your team to influence outcomes and propose well-informed new directions.
· You have great interpersonal communication skills. You’re good at finding new and better ways of communicating and sharing your work, and are always fine-tuning your work for impact and transparency.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of software development experience
- 4+ years of software development manager, managing teams of more than 5 software engineers experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

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