Software Development Manager, Pricing Shared Services

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a dynamic team in optimizing pricing algorithms and large-scale systems. This pivotal role involves tackling complex challenges using machine learning, distributed systems, and data mining to enhance pricing strategies for millions of products globally. You will nurture talent, streamline processes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about technology's role in customer satisfaction, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of direct experience within engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide your team through short-term obstacles while maintaining long-term objectives.
• Collaborate with business leads and product owners to drive development.

Skills

Team Management

Project Management

Machine Learning

Distributed Systems

Data Mining

Web Applications

Scalability

Statistical Algorithms

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Software Development Manager, Pricing Shared Services

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Description

Pricing Shared Services is a core team that enables pricing for Amazon worldwide. You will play a key role in evolving our core platform services and pricing algorithms to address complex technical challenges in pricing optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, algorithms, and data mining. The pricing systems automatically determine and publish prices for millions of items sold worldwide, from books to electronics to shoes. Each country presents unique complexities in price generation. We are experimenting with machine learning algorithms to lower prices for our customers and redesigning our core services to scale with Amazon’s growth.

As an experienced SDM in Amazon’s Pricing team, you will tackle complex challenges involving machine learning and large-scale systems, applying techniques in large-scale computing, distributed systems, data mining, scalability, machine learning, and statistical algorithms.

A day in the life

Success involves maintaining long-term objectives while guiding your team through short-term obstacles. You will develop your team members' careers, improve development processes, remove bottlenecks, and enable fast progress. Collaboration with business leads, product owners, technical program managers, designers, and partner teams is essential. Comfort with ambiguity and openness to alternative solutions are important.

Ideal candidate

You have demonstrated strong technical, project management, and leadership skills by leading software engineering teams that develop products used by millions daily. You excel at attracting and nurturing top talent and have a proven track record.

About the team

If you seek an environment fostering innovation and want to understand how Amazon builds customer trust through pricing, this team offers the challenge of applying cutting-edge computer science to develop tools powered by large-scale systems that solve real-world problems. You will work with other engineers, project managers, and product teams across countries to build next-generation pricing tools for Amazon.com worldwide.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of direct experience within engineering teams
• 3+ years designing or architecting systems (patterns, reliability, scaling)
• 8+ years leading multi-tier web service development
• Knowledge of full software/hardware/network development lifecycle practices
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience communicating requirements, designs, and strategy with users, technical teams, and leadership
• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and managing software engineers to improve skills and effectiveness

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. If you need workplace accommodations, visit this link. Compensation varies by geographic market, with base pay ranging from $166,400 to $287,700 annually, plus potential equity, sign-on bonuses, and benefits. Apply via our career site. This position remains open until filled.