Software Development Manager, Amazon Freight

We are looking for a Software Development Manager for our Amazon Freight Shipper Experience team owning core technology directly connected to customer problems!

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 Amazon Freight scales our technology. You will be part of a team owning core ordering billing and customer platforms end to end. You will be responsible for driving an engineering teams priorities based on a combination of data customer anecdotes and technical challenges to move the business forward. You will drive a transformation to track our order lifecycle end to end and provide insights to all facets of the business to drive decision making.

A day in the life
You will lead a team of SDEs and coordinate improvements across Amazon Freight as you own the core ordering and internal management platform. You will balance the needs of both internal and external stakeholders and customers as Amazon Freight services a variety of stakeholders. You will build long term strategy with your tech team and leadership teams to push our ability to service customers end to end without intervention and have a fresh opportunity to imagine how Generative AI can evolve our landscape.

About the team
Amazon Freights Shipper Experience team is striving to provide the best in class experience for functions like shipper onboarding order booking invoicing and outbound notifications. We have a diverse set of customers and stakeholders and you will have to balance solving unique customer problems with a broader vision of the long term extensibility of our business.

- 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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