Panda
Software Development Manager – E-Commerce
- Permanent
- Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 30/09/2025
Job overview
Date posted
16/08/2025
Location
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
30/09/2025
Job description
The Software Development Manager – E-Commerce at Panda Retail Company will lead the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native architectures and high-performing engineering teams. The role focuses on building customer-centric applications in the retail and e-commerce sectors using AWS services to deliver resilient, secure, and highly available systems. Responsibilities span engineering leadership, solution architecture, and strategic decision-making across cloud infrastructure, microservices, and mobile solutions. The position requires ensuring innovative, reliable, and business-aligned technology outcomes, along with enforcing best practices in Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps environments.
Required skills
software development lifecycle
mobile app development
API development
cloud architecture
AWS EC2
AWS Lambda
API Gateway
AWS S3
DynamoDB
AWS RDS
CloudWatch
microservices
DevOps
Terraform
infrastructure automation
container orchestration
Docker
ECS
EKS
serverless architecture
CI/CD
Key responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end software development lifecycle for consumer-facing and internal platforms including mobile apps, APIs, and integrations
- Manage a team of engineers and oversee the development, deployment, and release of apps on App Store and Google Play Store
- Own the development roadmap and coordinate closely with crossfunctional teams (Product, QA, UX) to ensure timely and high-quality delivery
- Implement and enforce engineering best practices (CI/CD, code reviews, Agile methodology)
- Design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, and CloudWatch
- Develop architectural blueprints and design documents for internal systems and customer-facing apps used by millions of users
- Establish microservices and API-first architecture with high availability and failover strategies
- Ensure seamless integration of third-party systems such as CRM, loyalty platforms, and payment gateways
- Ensure real-time integration with retail ERP and other core enterprise systems through secure APIs and event-driven messaging
- Drive personalization and AI/ML initiatives by deploying recommendation engines and MLOps workflows on AWS
- Oversee infrastructure automation using Terraform or similar IaC tools
- Monitor system health, logs, and metrics to proactively identify performance bottlenecks or anomalies
- Design disaster recovery plans and scaling strategies to support peak load events in retail and e-commerce
- Serve as the technical liaison between business leaders and engineering teams
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Coach and mentor engineers; drive career development and performance management
- Define and track KPIs related to delivery efficiency, system reliability, and user experience
- Ensure strict compliance with GDPR, PCI-DSS, and regional data-protection laws
Experience & skills
- 10+ years of progressive experience in software development and architecture roles
- Proven team leadership and project delivery experience
- Strong background in Java, JavaScript, APIs, microservices, and mobile development
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Agile / Scrum practitioner with hands-on DevOps experience
- Expertise in AWS ecosystem: EC2, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route 53, IAM, VPC, Auto Scaling, SNS, SQS
- Strong understanding of serverless architecture and event-driven systems
- Experience with container orchestration (ECS, EKS, Docker)
- Ability to architect for scalability, security, and fault tolerance across distributed systems
- Ensure compliance with data protection laws through privacy-by-design architecture and encryption
- Nice to Have: Experience in retail/e-commerce fulfillment systems (OMS, inventory, logistics)
- Nice to Have: Working knowledge of Oracle or other CRM/Loyalty platforms
- Nice to Have: Familiarity with monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Sentry, Datadog
