Software Development Manager, Amazon, Vendor & Internal Tooling, North American Stores

Our mission is to build and deploy best-in-class tools to improve the selling partner experience and accelerate selling partner growth across Amazon stores. Internally our tools are used on a daily basis to make our teammates jobs easier. Our customers are Amazons vendors as well as our global Retail teams including vendor managers customer service managers buying specialists and other teams that support our vendor relationships. Our remit is expanding on multiple dimensions as we increase our feature set on behalf of North America Stores and add new WW marketplaces.

To enable this expansion we are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to provide technical leadership directly manage a team of talented Software Development Engineers and work closely with a team of product managers and other partners and stakeholders in the US and abroad. The ideal candidate has an established track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams and launching new features and experiences with demonstrable impact. If that sounds like you you bring deep technical ability and excellent project management and communication skills and you thrive in highly collaborative creative analytical and fast-paced environment. Strong communication and writing skills are a must as well as a strong focus on operational and engineering excellence. While you bring a strong point of view you also have a track record of successful collaboration across a wide range of partners and functions.



Key job responsibilities
>> Team Leadership: lead and grow your team of engineers. Provide technical mentorship and career development while fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment
>> Technical Leadership: work closely with your engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach that scales for impact. Establish and optimize development processes that enable rapid experimentation and deployment while maintaining high quality standards. Build mechanisms to measure and improve the impact of what we launch.
>> Technical Strategy: ensure that our technical design is aligned with and informs our long term strategic vision to create value for Amazons vendors and and employees.
>> Global collaboration: work with our product management team and other engineering teams to deeply understand customer use-cases and make thoughtful architectural decisions that create durable value.
>> Operational Excellence: Lead the team in delivering new features with high impact while making decisions that optimize for low operational overhead in the long term.

- 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.