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Posted date: Aug 27, 2025
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Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $227,050
Range: $166,400 - $287,700
Description
Transform Reading for Millions - Lead the Future of Digital Reading. Are you passionate about building technology that touches millions of readers worldwide? Join Amazon's Kindle App Core team and lead the development of software that power Kindle apps on iOS, Android, iPadOS, Fire OS, and macOS.As a Software Development Manager for App Core, you'll be at the epicenter of digital reading innovation. Our team serves as the foundational platform enabling feature development across Kindle, directly impacting how millions of customers discover, purchase, and enjoy books daily.
Why This Role Matters:
* Massive Scale Impact: Your decisions influence reading experiences for millions of customers across multiple surfaces
* Cross-Platform Excellence: Own the technical foundation that enables seamless reading across the world's most popular mobile and desktop platforms
* Organizational Influence: Lead a central team that empowers single-threaded feature teams to move faster and deliver better customer experiences
Key job responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Vision
* Lead a team engineers building core infrastructure and platform capabilities for Kindle applications
* Drive architectural decisions that scale across iOS, Android, iPadOS, Fire OS, and macOS platforms
* Champion adoption of emerging technologies, particularly generative AI, to enhance reading experiences
* Establish engineering excellence standards through code reviews, design guidance, and developer training programs
Cross-Functional Impact
* Partner with product teams, UX designers, and single-threaded feature teams to enable rapid innovation
* Create scalable solutions that reduce development friction and accelerate time-to-market for new features
* Build and maintain the App Maintainers forum, providing critical oversight and expertise across the organization
* Lead cross-Amazon collaboration initiatives, connecting with teams like Prime Video to share best practices
Team Development & Culture
* Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent in a competitive market
* Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on customer obsession and technical excellence
* Implement effective processes for sprint planning, project tracking, and continuous improvement
* Mentor engineers and contribute to their career growth through challenging, impactful projects
Strategic Execution
* Manage complex technical initiatives spanning multiple platforms and stakeholder groups
* Balance competing priorities across 50+ ongoing initiatives while maintaining delivery excellence
* Drive visibility into team challenges and resource needs to ensure sustainable growth
* Contribute to organizational planning processes and long-term technical strategy
About the team
Why Join Kindle App Core?
Innovation at Scale: Work on technology that directly impacts millions of reading sessions daily across the world's most popular platforms.
Technical Excellence: Join a team known for high engineering standards, collaborative culture, and commitment to sustainable, scalable solutions.
Career Growth: Develop skills in platform engineering, cross-functional leadership, and large-scale system design while working with some of Amazon's most talented engineers.
Mission-Driven Work: Contribute to Amazon's mission of being Earth's most customer-centric company by making reading more accessible, enjoyable, and engaging for customers worldwide.
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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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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