Software Development Manager

Amazon Selling Partner Services team drives the Selling On Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell on Amazons Marketplaces. More than half of shipments for Amazon customers are generated from this business. The team is focused on building a technology platform that will support the explosive business growth in existing markets streamline the business for Amazon and the Selling partners and launch business in new markets and establish a fair marketplace.

We are looking for a motivated software development leader with both business and technical acumen. You will have the opportunity to build scale and shape the direction of this business. This role requires deep technical expertise excellent leadership skills and business judgment. You will be responsible for services that can be deployed globally delivering an exceptional customer experience provide thought leadership in a fast-paced development environment and partner with product management and senior leaders to ensure the success of this program.

As a Software Development Manager you will be responsible for leading a multi-functional team of engineers to design develop test and launch new features and products. You will lead the teams through a significant time of change as we prepare to support exponentially more use cases and customers than we have historically. You will use your technical expertise to drive decisions for the next generation of payment systems and to build products to help us automate and scale.

In addition you are a leader of leaders with progressive technical experience a demonstrated progression of management scope and a passion for managing engineering talent in a fast-paced environment. You have kept your coding skills sharp and possess exceptional project management and communication skills. You have successfully grown teams and people in the past and bring out the best in your teams. You will draw from your deep and broad technical expertise to hire and mentor engineers complete hands-on technical work and provide leadership on complex technical issues. You will manage and be responsible for delivering some of our most strategic technical projects.

The ideal candidate thinks big and is a change driver. You are experienced with communicating your plans to leadership and influencing them.

If you enjoy dealing with ambiguity complexity and broad scope that will be at the epicenter of our initiative come join us!

This is a role suitable for someone who wants to influence across organizations work on high profile high impact initiatives that impact Amazons bottom line.

Successful candidates must also be innovative flexible self-directed and able to design and write high-performance reliable maintainable code. The ability to function in a fast paced environment along with a team of very talented engineers is essential. If you enjoy working in a dynamic environment to deliver world class mission critical systems this may be the career opportunity for you!

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.