Software Development Manager, Geospatial Routing & Transit

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Bellevue is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Transit Intelligence team responsible for road network construction, vending, pathfinding, and transit time estimation at massive scale. You will drive end-to-end routing quality, collaborate with planning, safety, and science teams, and mentor a growing engineering organization.

The role demands overseeing low-latency navigation with high-throughput planning, shaping choices that impact customer delivery

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

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of software engineers who own road network construction and vending, pathfinding, and transit time estimation for Amazon Last Mile.
• Partnering with Planning systems teams who solve the Traveling Salesman Problem at very high throughput, and owning the API contracts and accuracy bar those solvers depend on.
• Working with Safety teams on routing and path-risk accuracy.
• Partnering with Science teams on the models behind time estimation and integrating those models into production routing.
• Owning transit time estimation quality end to end, including planned-versus-actual analysis and the underestimation and overestimation that drive downstream planning and customer promise.
• Managing technical roadmaps that balance new capability against the operational excellence a Tier-1 service demands.
• Developing engineering talent and building a deep, resilient team with clear technical ownership.
• Writing narratives and influencing VP-level technical decisions.

Skills

Engineering team management

Hands-on engineering

System design

Code reviews

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Bellevue is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Transit Intelligence team responsible for road network construction, vending, pathfinding, and transit time estimation at massive scale. You will drive end-to-end routing quality, collaborate with planning, safety, and science teams, and mentor a growing engineering organization.

The role demands overseeing low-latency navigation with high-throughput planning, shaping choices that impact customer delivery