Sr. Manager, Software Development, Amazon Special Projects

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur A builder A dreamer This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the companys Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If youre interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world this is the team for you.

Special Projects is seeking a founding member of our technical team who is an experienced engineering leader who combines superb technical research and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively. This hire will develop the foundational end to end architecture of a consumer-facing application that serves large enterprises in the energy space. A successful candidate will be comfortable working with a team of top-notch developers and collaborating with our systems test safety and security teams. Were looking for someone who innovates and loves solving hard problems! You will work hard have fun and of course make history!

You should have gone through at least two full software delivery lifecycles with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on software development experience and at least 4 years experience managing teams. You should have demonstrated solid leadership skills in a fast-paced and demanding work environment and be very comfortable with delivering solutions of complex nature.

You should have proven leadership skills in a fast-paced demanding environment and be very comfortable with delivering solutions for mobile platforms. A successful candidate may have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences a strong technical ability on algorithms and software architecture and object oriented designs excellent project management skills great communication skills and a motivation to solving complex problems in a fast paced environment.


Key job responsibilities
-Serve effectively as CTO as a founding member of the technical team for a brand new Amazon business
-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 tradeoffs and partner with Engineering teams for end-to-end solutions for best customer experience
-Participate in periodic product strategy sessions and planning team roadmap and strategy
-Report on status of development quality operations and system performance to management
-Translate functional requirements into robust scalable supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture
-Evaluate and make decisions about the use of new or existing software products and tools inclusive agentic/vibe-coding and other AI development tools for the entire SDLC (design development testing CI/CD)
-Mentor and guide junior engineers on design coding troubleshooting and operational excellence


- 10 years of engineering experience
- 5 years of engineering team management experience
- 10 years of planning designing developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs projects and development teams in an Agile environment

- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale high-traffic applications
- -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 $198100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $342300/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.