Software Development Manager, Business Data Technologies

Amazon Jobs; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 237,000 - 396,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Metro Vancouver seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team. In this strategic role, you will design and develop innovative UI-based solutions, optimizing operations and leveraging AI technologies. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in management and engineering, with a strong foundation in modern web technologies. The position offers a competitive salary range from $171,400 to $286,200 annually, along with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Equity options

Comprehensive medical benefits

Sign-on payments

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of experience within engineering teams.
• 8+ years developing multi-tier web services.

Responsibilities

• Lead a top-tier engineering team to achieve results.
• Design and address complex data challenges.
• Cultivate engineering excellence through metrics.

Skills

Engineering team management

Developing web applications

Strong communication skills

Agile development process

Problem-solving in data

Tools

React

AI tools

Job description

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

Amazon’s eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience, serving millions of customer page views and orders per day.

As an organization within eCF, the Business Data Technology (BDT) group is no exception. BDT organization is at the center of Amazon’s data-driven culture, with responsibility for the business analytics platform, providing data and data curation capabilities to thousands of internal and external customers worldwide.

BDT is building a series of interconnected applications that aim to offer an intuitive and simple user experience. We are looking for an innovative engineering manager to own, build, and grow multiple UI-based solutions to transform how data is used across the company. In this role, you will grow and lead a team that will design, develop, test, and operate intuitive, low latency UI solutions for large audiences that fulfill critical business functions with impact across Amazon. As a member of the BDT leadership team you will help set and meet goals and you will shape our long term technical and business strategy.

In this strategic, high‑visibility role you will lead your team of high performing engineers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize UI‑first software solutions you will develop and own. We are looking for a hands‑on SDM with an established background in developing high volume and highly available UI‑based services, strong technical ability, great communication skills, experienced with the modern UI development tools/paradigms and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment. You will partner with product owners, UX designers, business leaders and technical staff to deliver on cross‑cutting initiatives while also maintaining team health and operations metrics.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities

• Lead/Build a best‑in‑class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations
• Design and develop state‑of‑the‑art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous data problems
• Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning
• Provide thought leadership and establish technical vision for the team
• Mentor and grow high performing SDEs/FEEs to take on increasingly higher responsibilities
• Think big and work with Senior leadership, business stakeholders and engineering teams to define vision, strategy and requirements.
• Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver tech requirements on time and with a high‑degree of precision.
• Stay up to date on the latest capabilities developed in the AI space
• Leverage AI tools, methods, techniques to accelerate the deliverables of your team while maintaining a high quality bar

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
• Experience building web applications with React and modern web technologies
• 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.

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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.