Software Development Manager III — Cloud-Scale Onboarding Platform Lead

Amazon; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Boston is seeking a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the Joining Amazon initiative, delivering a large-scale onboarding platform from offer to Day 1. You will manage a diverse team of engineers, drive end-to-end architecture decisions, and collaborate with multiple business and tech teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes people leadership, program management, and delivering complex multi-tier services in Java/C#/C++.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience.
• 5+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

• Lead your team to build a brand new product with quality, robustness and Amazon sized scale as top priorities.
• Prioritize being a really great people manager. Building, motivating, rewarding and coaching a diverse team of Software Development Engineers is the most important part of this role.
• Contribute to architecture and design discussions for full stack software.
• Lead your team to evolve our service architecture with quality, robustness and Amazon sized scale as top priorities.
• You will regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.
• Set a vision for your team and create the technical roadmaps.
• Help your team sort out technical and product requirements and priorities. Deliver product roadmap items and cross-team projects.
• Delight your customers. Internalize our customer challenges and derive creative solutions which apply new and innovative technology.

Skills

People management

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Multi-tier web services

Java / C# / C++

Technical leadership

Recruiting & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Boston is seeking a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the Joining Amazon initiative, delivering a large-scale onboarding platform from offer to Day 1. You will manage a diverse team of engineers, drive end-to-end architecture decisions, and collaborate with multiple business and tech teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes people leadership, program management, and delivering complex multi-tier services in Java/C#/C++.