We're on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new automotive discovery and shopping products that connect customers with their vehicle of choice. We're looking for a talented Sr Software Development Manager to lead a new engineering team and collaborate with product managers, designers, external Vendors and engineers to design, and develop innovative automotive-shopping experiences for our customers.

Key job responsibilities

Develop and execute project plans and delivery commitments; Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment.
Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.
Operations of the service as a mission-critical system.
Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach. Be a hands-on technical leader and contributor.
Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.
A day in the life
As Sr Software Development Manager, you and your engineering team will work alongside Designers, Program Managers and Product Managers to create and execute on product and tech roadmaps for multiple engineering teams. You will manage the lifecycle (architecture, design, implementation, documentation and measurement) of your team's software. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.

About the team
This role is one in a newly formed Amazon Autos team with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon and external vendors to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.