Manager, Software Development, Private Brands

The Amazon Private Brands (APB) team is building the shared data, workflow, and AI agent platform that powers the next generation of APB products. As the Software Development Manager for the team, you'll own the vision, execution, and health of the platform, from dynamic data management and task orchestration to AI agent infrastructure built on Amazon Bedrock. You'll lead a team of engineers, set technical and organizational direction, and partner closely with consuming teams to ensure the platform scales to meet the org's needs.

Beyond leading delivery, we're looking for someone who operates with high ownership and broad impact. The right candidate doesn't just manage execution, they identify what needs to be built, align stakeholders across the org, and build the team and mechanisms to drive it to completion. They grow the engineers around them, raise the bar on technical and operational excellence, and leave both the team and the codebase in a better state than they found them.

Key job responsibilities
* Lead, hire, and develop a team of engineers building high-availability backend services in Java on AWS (ECS, RDS, EventBridge, Lambda)
* Own the technical roadmap across all platform areas including data management, task lifecycle, and agent infrastructure, and prioritize against org-wide needs
* Guide architecture decisions and review design docs that influence how APB teams build on top of the platform
* Drive cross-team integrations, ensuring the APIs and contracts your team defines meet the needs of downstream teams
* Grow engineers through coaching, career development, and feedback, and raise the technical bar through engineering standards and mechanisms
* Partner with product and leadership to translate business requirements into a scalable technical strategy and staffed execution plan
* Own the operational health of what your team builds, establish on-call, monitoring, and incident response practices, and drive continuous improvement
* Manage team planning, delivery, and stakeholder communication, balancing short-term commitments with long-term platform investment

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 3+ 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 distributed programming experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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
- Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices
- Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences

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USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually