Manager, Software Development — Private Brands & GenAI

Amazon; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in WA, Seattle seeks a Manager, Software Development for Private Brands. You will lead a team of engineers to translate requirements into scalable back-end services and GenAI solutions, overseeing design, development, testing, and deployment.

You will establish architectural roadmaps, collaborate with SDEs, PEs, and product managers, and focus on performance, documentation, and operations. This high-visibility leadership role offers broad business impact.

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage development teams focused on creating the complex back-end systems and/or agentic solutions for customer-facing products
• Establish and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps for the product
• Collaborate with SDEs, PEs, and engineering managers to develop the best technical and operational design, delivering value quickly to customers without sacrificing the long-term
• Design, refine and reduce the ongoing costs of operational processes.
• Be a guardian of world-class customer experience for your product: continually raise the bar on product performance, technical documentation, and availability and scale improvements.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team management

Architecting software systems

Product/PM collaboration

SDE/PE collaboration

Job description

Amazon in WA, Seattle seeks a Manager, Software Development for Private Brands. You will lead a team of engineers to translate requirements into scalable back-end services and GenAI solutions, overseeing design, development, testing, and deployment.

You will establish architectural roadmaps, collaborate with SDEs, PEs, and product managers, and focus on performance, documentation, and operations. This high-visibility leadership role offers broad business impact.