Are you ready to work on one of Amazon.com's most impactful programs? Are you
passionate about delivering technology that impacts millions of people every
day? If so, the Amazon Prime Team wants to hear from you.
The Prime team is seeking a Software Development Manager who takes great pride
in both the technical and business contribution of their work. You will be given
the chance to have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most
importantly, our customers. As a member of the Prime team, you will have the
opportunity to work with several teams across Amazon, working through
interesting business cases coupled with solving for technical challenges, all at
massive scale with hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. You will
get to work on moden technologies both in established systems as well as in a
relatively greenfield space and get to define the product architecture and
vision, especially around how to build new and extensible product experiences at
scale for Prime members worldwide. You will get to experiment with various
models and integrations and make a data focused decision on what works best for
our customers. You will also get to work on integrating with LLMs in such
scenarios and will lead the effort to get to a no-human-touch model for customer
optimized experiences. You will design flexible, responsive architectures that
allow self-service simplicity for our partner teams.
YOU AT PRIME:
In Prime, you will have the opportunity to work with several teams across
Amazon, working through interesting business cases coupled with solving for
technical challenges, all at massive scale with hundreds of thousands of
transactions per second. You will get to work on modern technologies both in
established systems as well as in a relatively greenfield space and get to
define the product architecture and vision, especially around how to build new
and extensible product experiences at scale for Prime members worldwide. You
will get to experiment with various models and integrations and make a data
focused decision on what works best for our customers. You will also get to work
on integrating machine learning in these scenarios and will lead the effort to
get to a no-human-touch model for customer optimized messaging. You will enhance
message-targeting efficiency through implementation of multivariate testing,
semantic analysis, data mining, and machine learning. You will design flexible,
responsive architectures that allow self-service simplicity for our partner
teams.
Key responsibilities include:
• Build and maintain the systems responsible for world-wide Prime membership
that power services across Amazon.
• Be the interface between the product owners and the development team,
thoroughly understanding the product, helping define user stories, and driving
the evaluation of appropriate technical solutions to meet the business
requirements.
• Lead the technical team of engineers to deliver on your goals.
• Own engagement with the partners, work to decompose requirements into
technical execution plans with multiple development teams, track progress
towards goals, and report status to product, business development, and technical
leadership.
• Help make the right feature trade-offs to ship software without compromising
customer experience and business relevance
• Engage with many other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your
project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and
technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals
• Represent the technical team to senior leadership across the company Basic
Qualifications: - 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 and program management teams Preferred
Qualifications: - 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
interview or onboarding process, please visit
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contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary for this position ranges from $171,400/year up to $286,200/year.
Salary is based on a number of factors 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.
Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
