Do you want to reach the next level in your career? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch technologies? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to discover the best from a multi-billion product selection!
The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, innovation and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside tools for marketers. You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising. Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe.
We believe in rapid development and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement. The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built services. There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale.
We're seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead our Strategic Programs charter within Amazon's US Prime & Marketing Systems organization. This role will drive technical innovation across critical discovery and monetization initiatives that have potential to become billion dollar businesses and directly impact customer experience and business growth, The charter combines several high-priority investments focused on improving product discovery, brand experiences, and advertising relevance across Amazon's key shopping surfaces.
Impact: You will lead a team building foundational technology that powers discovery experiences across Amazon's shopping surfaces. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while directly impacting customer experience and business growth.
Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and grow a team of software engineers working on complex discovery and recommendation systems
• Manage engineers to plan, design, and deliver complex systems and architecture improvements
• Create vision, technical strategies, and roadmaps for multiple workstreams
• Drive the delivery of customer-facing features that support business objectives
• Architect scalable systems that power personalized shopping experiences across events, gifting, and collections
• Manage operations, scaling, performance, and availability of services
• Establish key engineering and operational mechanisms to ensure team success
• Own all business and operational metrics for your team's software
• Collaborate with senior engineers to develop technology and architectural roadmaps
• Partner with product, science, business, and technology teams across Amazon to drive alignment and make high-judgment decisions
