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Selection Intelligence & Growth helps Amazon Sellers worldwide reach their full potential. Leveraging science and data across Amazon, we catalyze seller growth with comprehensive data, insights, actionable recommendations and growth plans. We strongly believe that any Amazon seller should be able to grow their businesses and reach their full potential by using our Ml powered, agentic and scaled self-service tools. We're building something transformational - a centralized intelligence layer that will fundamentally change how millions of sellers worldwide grow their businesses on Amazon. Rather than requiring sellers to seek out opportunities across disconnected tools, relevant insights and actions are brought front-and-center to their attention wherever they are working — contextually, proactively, and across domain boundaries. This new experience answers the questions every seller carries with them: "What matters to my business right now? Where should I invest my time and energy, and why?" As the Software Development Manager, you'll build Growth Intelligence Engine — our federated engine to help seller have trustable growth recommendations. You'll lead the team that will design and develop GIE, which: - Produces coherent, sequenced growth plans by optimizing cross domain - Generates transparent reasoning that explains why actions are recommended and what outcome the seller can expect - Delivers hyper-personalized guidance by integrating seller goals, constraints, behavioral signals, and business characteristics - Ensures consistency across all seller-facing surfaces (Next Gen Selling, Seller Assistant, SP-API) - Tracks outcomes to create continuous feedback loops that improve recommendation quality over time This is a highly visible, high-impact role. You'll partner closely with Senior Engineering leadership, Product Management, Scientists, UX designers, and multiple cross-org engineering teams. Key job responsibilities As a Software Development Manager at Amazon, you will take your technical experience to a new level by leading a team of engineers to deliver seller facing applications with generated insights/recommendations. In the primary scope of this role you and your team will own piloting a major growth solutions for concrete business use cases for our sellers. A day in the life You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you'll lead a team on technical designs and architecture. To build our seller facing applications, you will interact with various roles of different skillsets, including PM, Scientist, UX, Seller Consultant to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and to provide technical solutions to provide highly accurate data insight generation and top-notch UI/API. One of the important aspects of the role is to develop the best, and you’ll have opportunities to build a team and mentor others by sharing your knowledge across multiple teams. - 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 - 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 amazon.jobs for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs . USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

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As the Software Development Manager, you'll build Growth Intelligence Engine — our federated engine to help seller have trustable growth recommendations.
You'll lead the team that will design and develop GIE, which:
Produces coherent, sequenced growth plans by optimizing cross domain
Generates transparent reasoning that explains why actions are recommended and what outcome the seller can expect
Delivers hyper-personalized guidance by integrating seller goals, constraints, behavioral signals, and business characteristics
Ensures consistency across all seller-facing surfaces (Next Gen Selling, Seller Assistant, SP-API)
Tracks outcomes to create continuous feedback loops that improve recommendation quality over time
This is a highly visible, high-impact role. You'll partner closely with Senior Engineering leadership, Product Management, Scientists, UX designers, and multiple cross-org engineering teams.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager at Amazon, you will take your technical experience to a new level by leading a team of engineers to deliver seller facing applications with generated insights/recommendations.
In the primary scope of this role you and your team will own piloting a major growth solutions for concrete business use cases for our sellers.
A day in the life
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
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
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.
USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

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