Software Development Manager, Automotive, Amazon Autos

Were on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new discovery and shopping products that connect customers with their vehicle of choice. Were looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join our team of product managers designers and engineers to design and build innovative automotiveshopping experiences for our customers.

Key job responsibilities
As Software Development Manager you will build an engineering team responsible for delivering significant features across this new automotive shopping initiative. You will work directly with product management to define requirements and apply your technical expertise and leadership skills to organize and guide your team to solve difficult software problems in a fastpaced environment. Youll work with your team to create and execute technical goals roadmaps and vision that deliver amazing customer experiences and inspire your engineers to build innovative highquality and operationally excellent software and systems. You will lead the technical planning coordination architecture and implementation of multiple programs across our new automotive shopping initiative.

A day in the life
As Software Development Manager you and your engineering team will work alongside Designers Program Managers and Product Managers to create and execute on product and tech roadmaps. You will manage the lifecycle (architecture design implementation documentation and measurement) of your teams software. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highlytechnical projects with high impact and visibility.

About the team
This is a critical role to deliver our product vision of innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon providing customers better convenience and more selection. Were collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.

3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of engineering experience
8 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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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.