Software Development Manager Geospatial

The Amazon Delivery Geospatial team provides smart and efficient mobile maps and navigation experiences that empower delivery drivers worldwide to deliver packages groceries and more to customer doorsteps. We are looking for a single threaded leader to take ownership of a core piece of this puzzle and build out a team from the groundup.

You will be responsible for transforming the experience drivers have as they navigate to customer doorsteps. Your team will be responsible for building the location orientation and user activity (e.g. driving walking) provider that will power visual maps navigation and other workflows that rely on accurate signals generated by processing sensor data (e.g. GPS accelerometer magnetometer) on the device. Your team will use state of the art map matching location snapping and other algorithmic techniques to refine sensor inputs and create a highly precise signal for driver facing workflows. You will power the experience that delivery drivers use for majority of their day for both Amazon Flex a crowdsourced delivery opportunity for contractors and Amazon Logistics a delivery service comprised of small and medium sized businesses who deliver Amazon packages to customers doorstep.

You will be expected to build and grow a team that works on realtime sensor processing techniques ML models for high volume event processing and novel applications of geospatial data driven location correction techniques. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience design architecture and implementation of technology across both your team and partner teams that enable the endtoend driver journey.

A successful candidate will have an established background in mobile app development (iOS/Android) and in building highly scalable and mission critical software libraries with extensive technical knowledge of development techniques and latest practices. They will have a passion for managing engineering talent in a fastpaced environment the ability to drill down into lowlevel details when necessary and possess exceptional project management and communication skills.

In this role you will need to draw from your deep technical expertise to hire and mentor engineers complete handson technical work and provide leadership on complex technical issues. You will manage and be responsible for delivering some of our most strategic technical projects. You will play a critical role in broad business planning and influence our longterm technical and business strategy.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial and innovative person who thrives on solving customer problems. You will be joining a select group of a people making history producing one of the most critical products at Amazon!

Key job responsibilities
Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle of key product subsystems
Management and against project plans and delivery commitments
Manage the daytoday activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
Management of departmental resources staffing mentoring and enhancing and maintaining a bestofclass engineering team
Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
Report on status of development quality operations and system performance to management

3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.