Software Development Manager, AWS Marketing Demand Services

Join AWS as a Software Engineering Manager leading a high-performing team responsible for our design system telemetry marketer tooling content generation experiences and Generative AI capabilities. Youll manage a team of front-end engineers quality assurance engineers and design technologists who build and maintain the platforms that power AWS Marketings digital presence for millions of customers worldwide.

This team consistently delivers. We ship fast maintain high quality and take ownership of systems end-to-end. Youll inherit a group of motivated engineers who hold themselves to high standards and push each other to improve. Your job is to keep that momentum remove obstacles and create the conditions for continued excellence.

Youll own the technical direction and delivery of systems that directly impact how customers experience AWS. Your team builds the component libraries telemetry infrastructure marketer tooling content generation experiences and Generative AI capabilities that enable AWS Marketing to move fast while maintaining quality and consistency. Youll partner with product design and engineering teams across the organization to deliver cohesive customer experiences.

Were seeking a leader who elevates high-performing teams. Youll hire and develop engineers set technical standards and protect the team culture that drives results. Youll balance operational excellence with innovation ensuring reliability while shipping new capabilities.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of front-end engineers QA engineers and design technologists
- Own technical strategy and delivery for design system telemetry marketer tooling content generation experiences and Generative AI capabilities
- Maintain team velocity and quality while scaling the organization
- Hire develop and retain engineering talent
- Set technical standards and drive engineering best practices across the team
- Partner with product and design to define roadmaps and prioritize work
- Coordinate with partner teams across AWS Marketing to align on shared goals
- Drive operational excellence including on-call incident response and reliability improvements
- Remove blockers and protect the teams ability to deliver
- Manage delivery across multiple workstreams with competing priorities
- Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to leadership

A day in the life
Your primary focus is enabling your team to deliver high-quality work at speed. Most days start with your engineering team whether thats a standup a 1:1 with a team member or reviewing a technical approach. From there youre often in cross-team conversations aligning with product and design on priorities or working through technical trade-offs. Youll spend time on people management too from career development conversations to hiring. Some days youll go beyond the usual and find yourself presenting to senior leadership driving adoption of a new capability with a partner team or diving deep into a technical problem alongside your engineers. The work varies but youre always focused on removing obstacles developing your people and making sure the team ships great work.

About the team
We build and maintain the design systems and platforms that power AWS Marketings digital presence serving millions of customers worldwide. We also support key events and experiences across the organization. The team is composed of front-end engineers QA engineers and design technologists and we work closely with product and design partners in the same organization. Were constantly learning and experimenting with new technologies to bring the latest and greatest to customers. We value speed autonomy delivery and delightful customer experiences.

- 4 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 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
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field

- 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
- 5 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- Experience with front-end software development
- Experience developing deploying and managing AI products at scale

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 203400.00 - 275200.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually