Varun Jain

VP of Engineering

India15 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led global engineering teams at Amazon and Google.
  • Championed Generative AI adoption for engineering efficiency.
  • Proven track record in payments and e-commerce leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce engineering leader with extensive experience in platform development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipStrategic PlanningProject Management

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial Intelligence (AI)CData StructuresDesign PatternsGenerative AIHiringJSONJavaJava Enterprise EditionLinuxMongoDBOOPObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Oracle

About

Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience building, scaling, and leading global product and platform organizations at Amazon, Google, and Goldman Sachs. Proven track record in org design, multi-year platform strategy, and cross-continent leadership across payments and e-commerce. Lead engineer global org delivering the cross-cutting Payments Resilience Platform that safeguards Amazon’s 40+ mission-critical payment services. Expert in designing high-ownership team structures, driving platform modernization, and building leadership pipelines. Recently championed Generative AI adoption (e.g., Amazon Q) to accelerate engineering delivery, improve quality, and streamline onboarding. Known for influencing VP/C-level stakeholders, managing complex cross-functional initiatives, and scaling organizations while maintaining technical excellence.

Experience

Amazon

5 roles

Senior Manager, Software Development

Promoted

Feb 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • I lead a global engineering organization across India and the US, managing multiple Engineering Managers to deliver resilience services that protect Amazon’s 40+ mission-critical payment systems and external financial partners. I’ve driven a three-year resilience strategy, secured multi-million-dollar funding, and influenced VP-level roadmaps. My team modernized architecture with automated failover, predictive incident detection, and self-healing systems — significantly reducing recovery times and preventing multiple large-scale service disruptions annually, protecting high-value global transactions. I championed Generative AI adoption (Amazon Q) for coding, documentation, and code review, and built a strong leadership pipeline through targeted hiring, mentorship, and DEI initiatives.
People ManagementStrategic PlanningProject ManagementTechnical Leadership

Software Development Manager

Promoted

Jun 2017Aug 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Led the charter of Payment method acceleration and experimentation at worldwide Payment org.
  • Launched Bank Redirect Payment in emerging markets, enabling local currency transactions on Amazon.com.
  • Developed Payment Method Ranking Engine, improving conversion rates and reducing customer dwell time.
  • Reduced new payment method launch time by 3 months by eliminating 13 redundant touchpoints.

SDE II & Lead

Promoted

Aug 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Led development of Seller Onboarding Platform. This platform is a single source of onboarding for different business units with in Amazon. It take care of entire KYC flow and provide the status of what all operations allow for the seller based on the available information and verification status.
  • Handled development for Buyvip.com - Amazon flash sales business in Europe.
  • Worked for datapath application. Datapath flow is responsible to source data from difference scope, apply business logic over it and finally provide the data to website to show in to product detail page.
  • Worked for returns application. It required interaction with multiple teams as returns flow involved multiple things from fetching returnable orders to provide return reasons, shipping options and tag label.

Programmer Analyst

Dec 2012Sep 2013 · 9 mos

  • Worked with Global Retail Catalog System team. My team is responsible for expanding new categories in Amazon Retail Catalog.
  •  Developed tools which are helping in significant time reduction in new Category Expansions.
  •  Most of the development is in Java using Spring Framework and AWS Services.

Application Engineer

Jul 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

  •  Worked with Vendor Self Service team which is responsible for development of vendor facing website
  •  Responsible for New Country Expansion development for Vendor Facing sites.
  •  Involved in various bug fixing which needs excellent debugging skills.
  •  Worked for project which includes sending daily compiled mails to vendors and vendor manager for particular event containing their sales summary.
  •  Involved in various problem solving and enhancement activities.

Google

Engineering Manager

Aug 2021Jan 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managed a team responsible for generating the business insights on Google workspace product with PBs of data.

Goldman sachs

Associate

Sep 2013Aug 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  •  Worked for Reference Data Technology. My team was responsible for maintaining and providing reference data to all downstream systems.
  •  Extensively worked on Soap and Rest based web-services development.
  •  Worked on regulatory and client onboarding projects.
  •  Worked on development of business flows using business rule engines.

Sapient

Associate Technology

Jul 2010Jul 2011 · 1 yr

  •  Involved in project using SOA architecture for development of game betting trader application for sports like tennis, football etc for Ladbrokes.com.

Education

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Master of Computer Applications - MCA

Jan 2007Jan 2010

Jiwaji University (JU), Gwalior

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science

Jul 2004Jun 2007

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