Are you passionate about innovating and delivering foundational technologies that empower every Amazon Store Builder on their journey to build experiences? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems at Amazon scale? Join us and you'll accelerate Store Builders at Amazon to deploy federated shopping experiences!
As a Software Development Manager (SDM), you will lead engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems. You will use your technical skills, leadership, and partnership with stakeholders to design, build, and evolve the systems in the front end space. You will work closely with business teams, product managers, engineers, and partner teams to create and drive plans that transform innovative ideas into products that delight your customers.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of mobile-obsessed software development engineers that operates at the scale of the Amazon Store within an Agile environment.
- Think big and work with executive leadership and business stakeholders to define strategy and roadmap.
- Drive team execution against our product roadmap, project plans, and delivery commitments.
- Set up mechanisms to monitor operational excellence while meeting/exceeding system SLAs (e.g. Availability, Latency).
- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach for native app rendering.
- Work with your team to define and develop an inclusive team culture that fosters individual growth and team success.
- Provide a work environment that allows employees to have fun and advance in their careers.
A day in the life
This is a wide-ranging role that involves partnering closely with other technical leaders, engaging with internal customers, and influencing program leaders. As an SDM, you completely own your space and are empowered to define strategy, roadmap, and the metrics. This requires owning the overall product, including execution and delivery. One day you may be contributing to key documents, and another you may be leading sprint planning for your team, or general product prioritization and execution.
About the team
The AppFlow team owns the native rendering platform for the Amazon Retail Shopping app. Based on React Native, our platform is driving a new model for rendering native experiences across mobile operating systems. We strive to provide our customers with the most flexible and performant mobile development capability. We emphasize engineering accountability, technical innovation, and having fun working on one of the world's largest mobile app experiences.
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 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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.
