Software Development Manager, AWS Transactional Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Vancouver; On-site; CAD 235,633 - 393,456; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Vancouver is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the delivery of software development projects. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in engineering teams and a strong background in distributed systems and architecture. This role requires excellent leadership and communication skills to collaborate with various teams and drive innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
• 8+ years of leading definition and development of multi-tier web services.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of software development projects end-to-end.
• Define your team's roadmap and manage ongoing projects.
• Collaborate with peers to implement best practices in software development.

Skills

Engineering team management

Distributed systems design

Multi-tier web services

Mentoring

Job description

Overview

Join us in building the next generation of distributed systems that power AWS. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides highly scalable and robust services to its customers. As AWS grows to serve more customers and support more products, the foundational technologies of AWS evolve to support new use cases and larger scale. The AWS Transactional Services team in Vancouver is building distributed systems and backend technologies that offer innovative solutions to this growth. Our customers include a wide range of AWS foundational teams, from S3, Kinesis, SNS and DynamoDB, each seeking technology solutions to help them achieve their goals. The team builds Journal Control Plane services and automations at scale, and leads with tenured Principal Engineers and Senior Software Engineers on a daily basis.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of software development projects end-to-end.
• Define your team's roadmap and manage ongoing projects, keeping customers informed, updating senior management, and representing the team to dependencies.
• Work with engineers to invent, design, and develop highly available and scalable distributed systems and database technologies.
• Collaborate with peers, senior management, and senior engineers to implement best practices in software development and operational processes.
• Develop and grow team members, including mentoring others.
• Stay up to date with new technologies used in the field and by customers to remain current in a rapidly changing environment.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services
• 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 live-site operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. If you require accommodations during the application and hiring process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

The base salary for this position ranges from $171,400/year up to $286,200/year. Salary is based on factors including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Depending 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.