Software Development Manager, Offers Platform, Catalog Systems, ASCS

Full Job Description

Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS) builds and operates the systems that host the world's largest e-commerce product catalog. We power the online shopping experience, allowing customers to find, discover and buy anything they want, anytime. The Offers Platform team within ASCS are at the core of all Amazon Stores experiences worldwide.

As the vending surface of Catalog Systems, the Catalog Vending team sits at the core of Amazon.com, serving billions of requests per second at single-digit-millisecond P99 latency. We are the authority for the critical product and purchasing data — availability, buyability, price, and relationships — that every shopping surface depends on. Our software runs in a distributed, highly performant, highly available micro-service system over billions of records, and our clients are thousands of internal teams and the surfaces that reach customers: Amazon.com, Kindle, Alexa, Groceries, and the new generation of agentic shopping experiences. Owning one of Amazon's most critical Tier-1 services, we play an active role in design and consultation across the company to enable new business use-cases at Amazon.com's scale.

Key job responsibilities As a Software Development Manager, you will be joining the team that enables Amazon's Catalog to operate at scale. You will be leading a team of software developers solving novel technical challenges, working with tenured Principal Engineers and Senior Software Engineers on a daily basis.

Your responsibilities include:

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including customers, product managers, stakeholders and leaders to ensure the successful end to end delivery of product capabilities.
• Define your team's roadmap and manage the ongoing projects, keeping customers informed, update senior management, and represent the team to their dependencies.
• Technical leadership including architecture and design discussions for engineering problems and technical deep dives to ensure resolution and root causes of complex issues.
• Work with your team, your peers, senior management, and senior engineers to implement best practices in software development and operational processes.
• Develop and grow the members of your team, as well as mentoring others.
• Keep up to date with new technologies used in the field and by our customers, to stay current in our rapidly changing environment

Basic Qualifications

• 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

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

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, Amazon's 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 - 171,400.00 - 286,200.00 CAD annually

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