The Creators organization at Amazon is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to lead one of our core engineering teams, and help us re-imagine social shopping! We own the Associates and Influencer programs across Amazon and our mission is to become the Earth’s most desired destination for commerce creators across the world, and their content. We ensure a cohesive experience for all creators, expand their opportunities to earn through innovation, and launch experiences that reinforce their feeling of achievement.

As a Software Development Manager, you will lead an engineering team that designs, develops, tests, and deploys new customer facing technology products. We are looking for a highly motivated, top notch leader with both business and technical acumen. You will have the opportunity to build, scale and shape the direction of this business. This role requires deep technical expertise, excellent leadership skills, and strong business judgment. You will be responsible for services that can be deployed globally, delivering an exceptional customer experience, provide thought leadership in a fast-paced development environment, and partner with product management and senior leaders to ensure the success of this program, while solving broad industry challenges.

If you enjoy dealing with high ambiguity, complexity and broad scope that will be at the epicenter of Amazon's social shopping efforts, come join us!

Key job responsibilities
- Lead E2E architecture, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of technology-focused tools and services.
- Provide leadership and innovation in the design and implementation of services to enable new products and services.
- Evaluate complex business and technical requirements, and communicate inherent risks and solutions to technical and non-technical business owners.
- Act as point of contact for communications dealing with project deliverables, setting the expectation, managing priorities, technologies, human factors and management issues.
- Establish consistence project management processes, standards and guidelines in the execution of program wide security efforts. Engage enterprise wide teams as needed with focus on results.
- Effectively hires, develops and manages performance

A day in the life
In this role you will work closely with stakeholders, software engineers , product teams, business and marketing partners to deliver our most complex, high quality, scalable products deployed around the world.

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.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 203,400.00 - 275,200.00 USD annually