Software Development Manager, Content Systems

Are you passionate about providing an epic experience for every interaction customers have with Amazon

We own the largest content marketing system at Amazon driving billions of dollars through marketing sales and Prime memberships. We power content to millions of customers through Amazon website mobile email and other devices across shopping streaming and reading experiences.

As a Software Development Manager you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers in the design development testing and deployment of largescale systems that handle billions of requests daily. We are building the next generation of content marketing systems to further scale up our business impact. You will have direct ownership over the design and architecture of new components focusing on enhancing the platforms extensibility scalability availability and latency.

A successful candidate will possess an established background in engineering management strong technical abilities excellent project management skills and communication abilities experience in engineering hiring and a motivation to achieve results in a fastpaced environment.

If you interested in driving high impact delivery are deeply technical highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems we want to talk to you!

Key job responsibilities
Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments aligning with business
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

A day in the life
In this role you can expect to:
Lead a team of excellent engineers to design and build new systems to scale and automate the future of marketing systems
Iterate on products using feedback from thousands of users
Partner with designers to drive new user experiences

About the team
The Content Systems team owns the foundation of merchandising tools at Amazon. Our UIs and APIs provide Amazon employees with the best experience when creating and scheduling content for Amazons customers. We enforce rules and guardrails through our APIs to protect the Amazon shopping experience. If you are passionate about software engineering and personalized content experiences at scale then we encourage you to apply.

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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The base salary for this position ranges from $171400/year up to $286200/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.