• 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

Amazon Prime serves 200MM members across 24 countries and is at the heart of Amazon’s explosive growth. Prime’s vision is to be the largest and most loved membership program in the world. Towards this vision, we are making Prime relevant and accessible to every individual in the work, differentiate its value proposition across every segment and geography, and empower every Amazon business to accelerate its growth through Prime. The Prime Acquisition team is at the forefront of driving Prime member growth by acquiring Prime members on Amazon.
The Prime Acquisition team is seeking a Software Development Manager who takes great pride in both the technical and business contribution of their work. You will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers. As a member of the Prime team, you will have the opportunity to work with several teams across Amazon, working through interesting business cases coupled with solving for technical challenges, all at massive scale with hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. You will get to work on cutting edge technologies both in established systems as well as in a relatively greenfield space and get to define the product architecture and vision, especially around how to build new and extensible product experiences at scale for Prime members worldwide. You will get to experiment with various models and integrations and make a data focused decision on what works best for our customers. You will also get to work on integrating machine learning in these scenarios and will lead the effort to get to a no-human-touch model for customer optimized experiences. You will design flexible, responsive architectures that allow self-service simplicity for our partner teams.
Key job responsibilities

• Build and maintain the systems responsible for world-wide Prime membership that power Prime Offers for Amazon customers.
• Be the interface between the product owners and the development team, thoroughly understanding the product, helping define user stories, and driving the evaluation of appropriate technical solutions to meet the business requirements.
• Lead the technical team of engineers to deliver on your goals.
• Own engagement with the partners, work to decompose requirements into technical execution plans with multiple development teams, track progress towards goals, and report status to product, business development, and technical leadership.
• Help make the right feature trade-offs to ship software without compromising customer experience and business relevance
• Engage with many other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals
• Represent the technical team to senior leadership across the company

A day in the life

• Work with exceptional tech and business professionals to deliver incremental acquisition goals through owning and building Prime offer capabilities and customer experiences
• Scale and deliver Prime offer experiences across the 24 countries Prime operates in
• Partner closely with Acquisition Tech and other Prime and non-Prime engineering teams to develop scalable capabilities that serve Prime and partner businesses

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA

• 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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $148,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.