Software Development Manager III, Amazon Transportation, Amazon Shipping

Who are we
Ready to build Amazons next $100B business Were not just entering shippingwere transforming how billions of packages move around the globe. By evolving Amazons legendary fulfillment engine into an agile intelligent shipping network were creating a resilient system that continuously optimizes to deliver on time every time for every business and every customer. Every shipment is more than just a boxit spins the flywheel faster continuously enhancing our logistics network through scale speed and intelligence. As we increase density and reach were revolutionizing shipping for ALL businesses while simultaneously strengthening Amazons own delivery capabilitiesreducing costs and accelerating deliveries across our entire ecosystem.

What will you do
Were hiring a Software Development Manager to lead our Pricing tech team. will be responsible for leading three pivotal products each addressing a crucial aspect of our pricing ecosystem:
Strategic Cost Modeling & Simulation Platform:
This platform will have the capability to accurately predict costs 1-3 years into the future a foundational element for pricing long-term contracts. We will develop innovative approaches to validate long-term predictions provide risk assessments and enable rapid simulations of cost impacts from changes in shipper profiles or network configurations. This teams work will directly impact our ability to price contracts profitably and manage long-term risk.
Pricing Recommendation Engine & Negotiation Tools:
Focused on empowering our sales team we will develop data-driven pricing recommendations for the contract market. We will create a system that considers multiple factors including shipper profiles willingness to pay and network costs. Crucially we will also build a control panel allowing leadership to set and adjust pricing guardrails dynamically ensuring our pricing strategies can be quickly adapted to changing market conditions.
Capacity-Aware Dynamic Pricing System:
We need to tackle the challenge of real-time pricing in our spot market. By integrating with our capacity models and demand forecasts we will build a system that optimizes pricing to maximize network utilization and profitability. This capability is essential for competing effectively in the fast-paced spot market while maintaining our profit targets.


Key job responsibilities
1. Drive technical excellence across multiple domains from machine learning-based forecasting to high-throughput low-latency pricing systems.
2. Partner effectively with business stakeholders translating complex business requirements into clear technical direction.
3. Lead and develop senior technical talent and foster a strong engineering culture that empowers innovation.
4. Balance immediate business needs with long-term technical health making judicious tradeoffs and investments.
5. Navigate the complexity of our business understanding the interplay between contract and spot markets and how technology can be leveraged to optimize across both.

- 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
- 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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