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Posted date: Apr 18, 2025
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Location: Bellevue, WA
Estimated salary: $227,050
Range: $166,400 - $287,700
Description
The last mile vehicle routing organization is at the heart of our logistics network. As we continue to enhance the driver experience, we need to extend our vehicle routing software and tools to better support all delivery challenges at Amazon. We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager with strong technical skills, great communication abilities, and a passion for growing engineers to grow out our hyper fast routing capabilities. In this role, you will work at the intersection of real world delivery processes and technology. You will learn about real-time adaptive transportation solutions, routing algorithms and optimizations, how to operate on large-scale datasets, and more. You will work with research scientists, engineers and product managers in a fast paced and growing environment, where ideas are prototyped, tested, and implemented at speed. As an engineering manager, you will drive discipline into the engineering process, insist on quality outcomes. The right candidate will possess excellent people management skills, will have demonstrated experience leading medium to large projects, and will have a well-rounded technical background. You need to be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. As an SDM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate will: Be responsible for the end to end ownership of a technology team, including setting the technical vision for developing our systems to serve Amazon's needs. Build and manage great software engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining software that optimizes our transportation network. Be an advocate of engineering and operational excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence and a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement. Establish a consistent, project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations, for business partners in multiple geographies. Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision. Be responsible for mentoring and developing engineers. Represent the technical organization and evangelize the work to senior leadership. Raise the bar on technical excellence, show thought leadership, and communicate well to different audiences.
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
Extended 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/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.
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