Software Development Manager, Amazon Pharmacy Checkout

Are you excited about the opportunity to lead a foundational team solving real-world problems in healthcare Amazon Pharmacy is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead our customer communications and data management teama critical part of our mission to make it dramatically easier for customers to find choose afford order and manage the medications and services they need to stay healthy.

In this role youll lead and grow a team of exceptional engineers focused on building two foundational systems: our Centralized Notification System (CNS) and PharmacyAPI (PAPI). Youll drive technical strategy and operational excellence across both systems partner with product and design teams and innovate on behalf of customers to transform how healthcare information is managed and communicated across Amazon Health Services (AHS).

Your team will:

* Build seamless scalable and secure notification experiences through CNS ensuring customers receive timely and coherent communications across their healthcare journey
*Develop and enhance PAPI as the central source of truth for pharmacy data providing reliable HIPAA-compliant access to critical healthcare information
* Drive architectural decisions that enable efficient data retrieval and communication patterns across AHS
* Partner with multiple teams to establish these systems as the standard primitives for healthcare communications and data management

Join us to lead and grow a team of exceptional engineers who continuously innovate to enhance the Amazon Pharmacy customer experience.





Key job responsibilities
As an SDM leading customer communications and data management platforms your typical day includes one-on-one meetings with your direct reports and participating in daily stand-ups to track experiment progress. Youll attend PR-FAQ reviews with senior leadership to discuss forward-looking experiences youve conceived. Your day also involves strategy sessions with product leads to brainstorm ideas and coffee chats with partner leaders to explore potential collaborative experiments.

A day in the life
As an SDM leading customer communications and data management platforms your typical day includes one-on-one meetings with your direct reports and participating in daily stand-ups to track experiment progress. Youll attend PR-FAQ reviews with senior leadership to discuss forward-looking experiences youve conceived. Your day also involves strategy sessions with product leads to brainstorm ideas and coffee chats with partner leaders to explore potential collaborative experiments.

- 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
- Bachelors degree

- 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.