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Software Development Manager, AWS Transform

Amazon· Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
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Hybrid (Boston, MA)$184.9k - $250.2kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Software Development Manager to lead a team of engineers in designing, building, and operating software systems at Amazon scale. Owns technical vision and roadmap, guides full software lifecycle, mentors engineers, and collaborates across teams to solve customer problems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a high-performing software development team, providing coaching, mentorship, and career development guidance to engineers across multiple levels while building a strong talent pipeline through effective hiring practices.
  • Own the technical strategy and 1–2 year product roadmap for your team's software systems, defining priorities that align with organizational goals and customer needs while making transparent tradeoffs on scope, resources, and timelines.
  • Drive system design decisions across your team's architecture, ensuring solutions meet scalability, performance, security, and maintainability requirements while reducing complexity and technical debt over time.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners—including product, program management, and peer engineering teams—to align on priorities, resolve dependencies, and deliver cohesive solutions that improve the customer experience.
  • Establish operational excellence practices including metrics, audit mechanisms, and quality standards that enable your team to maintain healthy systems, respond effectively to issues, and continuously improve delivery processes.

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

Skills

Required:Team leadership and coachingTechnical strategy and roadmap developmentSystem design and architectureCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and related coverage options (including Basic Life & AD&D and optional supplemental life plans)
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Sign-on payments and RSUs (as part of compensation)
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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