Senior Manager, Software Development, Goodreads

Goodreads is the worlds largest site for readers and book recommendations. Founded in 2007 Goodreads mission is to help people discover books they love and get more out of reading. Used by avid and casual readers alike Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or through the Goodreads community; share ratings and recommendations; track what they have read and list what they want to read. Goodreads is also a place where authors and advertisers connect with our valuable reading audience. Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon.

As a Senior Manager you will use significant expertise and high judgment to design team structures and strategies to meet long-term business goals in areas where problems and strategies are not yet defined. You will lead other leaders to set and execute on the vision. You will also drive hiring and developing engineers helping them meet and exceed their career goals. Youll manage multiple teams and leverage your strong technical ability excellent project management skills great communication skills and motivation to achieve results. You will be responsible for services that can be deployed globally delivering an exceptional customer experience provide thought leadership in a fast-paced development environment and partner with product management and senior leaders to ensure the long-term success of Goodreads.

Key job responsibilities
- Design team structures and strategies to deliver experiences used by millions of readers
- Lead software development execution ensuring teams deliver high-quality systems that meet business goals and operational requirements
- Hire bar-raising talent and grow leaders through coaching and strategic project assignment
- Identify opportunities to leverage central Amazon systems and assess when custom solutions are appropriate
- Own relationships with operations teams business teams and technology partners across Amazon
- Set standards for operational excellence and process improvement
- Champion AI-native development practices enabling significant productivity gains

- 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 designing and developing large scale high-traffic applications

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN ON Toronto - 214200.00 - 357800.00 CAD annually