Software Development Manager III Amazon Robotics Robotic Movement Team

Amazon Robotics is seeking a talented collaborative and motivated Software Development Manager to lead a team of engineers in delivering features which control and optimize robotic fulfillment centers used by amazon operations.

Key job responsibilities
As a manager within the Robotic Movement team you will lead a team of diverse collaborative engineers in designing and delivering highly available highly scalable services and features within Amazons robotic fulfillment centers. The team and your role directly impacts the speed at which Amazons customers receive their packages. In the Robotic Movement team you will interact with customers understand business goals and innovate rapidly to deliver high quality high value features. You will have opportunities to collaborate with highly capable leaders engineers research scientists applied scientists and crossfunctional teams on innovative automation solutions for Amazon Robotics evergrowing robotic fleet.

When Amazon delivers a package to your door you will know that your teams software helped make this happen!


A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular fulltime employees include:
1. Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly wed still love to hear from you! At Amazon we value people with unique backgrounds experiences and skillsets. If youre passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale please apply!


About the team
The Robotic Movement teams primary responsibility is to plan allocate and execute the tasks that our fleet of 750k robots perform while minimizing the amount of time it takes to get packages into our customers hands. Our teams software must maximize performance of robots while adapting to constantly changing conditions within a warehouse all while keeping the robots at healthy charge levels.

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
5 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 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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