Manager, Software Development, Private Brands

At Amazon were working to create the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there we need exceptionally talented bright and driven leaders to help us build great customer experiences. Our Private Brands offer customers quality at great prices and we are looking for a Manager Software Development to help build new experiences and systems that will enable customers to discover and buy Private Brands products. We are an interdisciplinary team that leverages the strengths of engineers and scientists to build solutions for some of the toughest business problems at Amazon.

You will lead a team of engineers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and user experiences including the design development testing and deployment of highly scalable distributed services and GenAI solutions. This is a unique high visibility opportunity for a leader who wants to have business impact dive deep into large-scale engineering problems and hire and develop a large team.

Key job 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.

- 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

- 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 171400.00 - 286200.00 CAD annually