Software Development Manager, JP Manga

Love Manga or Comics Interested in creating a great customer experience for Amazons Manga business The Japan Manga business focuses on creating a great customer experience for Manga fans to discover acquire and read digital Manga.

We are looking for a seasoned leader for a team of Software Development Engineers in our Seattle office to own Manga services and features on Amazon Japan website across all platforms (desktop mobile browser mobile shopping app). A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences as well as backend services a strong technical ability excellent project management skills great communication skills managing and growing developers and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

In this team you will have the opportunity to:
- Solve challenging problems at significant scale
- Be responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
- Develop the long-term strategy for your programs and translate that into an achievable road map/action plan
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach


Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
- Develop the long-term strategy for your programs and translate that into an achievable road map/action plan
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Management of departmental resources staffing mentoring and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class 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
- Work closely with Product Managers Sr Manager UX across Manga.

- 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
- 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 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.