Description

Amazon’s transportation operations rely on thousands of truck drivers daily to bring inventory into its fulfillment centers and get millions of packages out to customers. Amazon’s demand for transportation grows every year, especially during critical peaks like Prime Day and holidays. To overcome this challenge, we are building a suite of innovative products both to enable faster growth but also to tap into new sources of transportation supply. This is a ground-floor opportunity to become the technical leader for solving large-scale problem through innovative technology. Your focus will be customer facing applications, scheduling and planning systems, and managing transportation demand.

The Amazon Middle Mile Product and Tech team is looking for a technically-skilled Software Development Manager to join our team. In this role you will build and lead a team of talented engineers. You will be responsible for scoping and delivering large projects end to end. Responsibilities include collection of business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, writing technical specifications, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing the production launch. You will lead and coordinate design/implementation efforts across multiple teams to develop optimal solutions. As a Software Development Manager at Amazon you’ll be a technical leader. You’ll help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You’ll work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. Your expertise is deep and broad; you’re hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.

You will drive projects end-to-end, collaborate on product definition with business teams, architect and implement the technical solution, and measure its success. You will work with and influence senior management across the company and play a key role in ensuring Amazon continues to reinvent itself. You will be working with a talented team of technical professionals to build highly scalable customer-facing systems. You will advocate for the customer and ensure we are building the best possible experience on their behalf. If you are a hands-on technical leader, have big ideas, and the hunger to make things happen broadly, we should talk.

More broadly, you’ll be expected to:

• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.

• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.

• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.

• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, system architecture, and engineering best practices.

• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior art in design decisions.

• Effectively research and benchmark Amazon technology against other competing systems in the industry.

• Serve as a technical lead on cross-functional projects and software development teams.

• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members

• Assist in the continual hiring and development of technical talent, including other Amazon Principal Engineers.

• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

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 or 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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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.