Do you want to reach the next level in your career? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch technologies? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to discover the best from a multi-billion product selection!
The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, innovation and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside tools for marketers. You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising. Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe.
We believe in rapid development and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement. The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built services. There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale.
We're seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead our Strategic Programs charter within Amazon's US Prime & Marketing Systems organization. This role will drive technical innovation across critical discovery and monetization initiatives that have potential to become billion dollar businesses and directly impact customer experience and business growth, The charter combines several high-priority investments focused on improving product discovery, brand experiences, and advertising relevance across Amazon's key shopping surfaces.
Impact: You will lead a team building foundational technology that powers discovery experiences across Amazon's shopping surfaces. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while directly impacting customer experience and business growth.
Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and grow a team of software engineers working on complex discovery and recommendation systems
• Manage engineers to plan, design, and deliver complex systems and architecture improvements
• Create vision, technical strategies, and roadmaps for multiple workstreams
• Drive the delivery of customer-facing features that support business objectives
• Architect scalable systems that power personalized shopping experiences across events, gifting, and collections
• Manage operations, scaling, performance, and availability of services
• Establish key engineering and operational mechanisms to ensure team success
• Own all business and operational metrics for your team's software
• Collaborate with senior engineers to develop technology and architectural roadmaps
• Partner with product, science, business, and technology teams across Amazon to drive alignment and make high-judgment decisions- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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
- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems- 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
- Experience in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/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
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
