Amazon Sr Mgr Applied Science Alexa Shopping 

United States, Texas, Austin 

529191955

It’s truly Day 1 for our team in AWS. This is your opportunity to be a founding manager on a new team that’s building a suite of AWS Apps and Services to tackle a huge new problem space. You’ll be an integral part of building services that leverage cutting edge AWS technologies like GenAI technologies, Agentic AI, Bedrock Agents, Forecast, Athena, QuickSight, Glue, and more. As an early member of this team, you’ll wear many hats. You’ll help design the overall architecture, you’ll own large chunks of design and development work for various components, and you’ll establish the technology processes and practices that will lay the groundwork for the organization as it grows.Although what we’re building is still confidential, as a software developer you can expect to:Deal with ambiguity in solving a complex problem space that has not been tackled at this scale before.
Be a key contributor in setting the teams technical direction, best practices, and plan for the years aheadBack-end engineers will build the core backbone infrastructure and platform of services leveraging key AWS capabilities and cutting edge GenAI, agentic AI, ML and analytics models.
You will be working on the design and development of services and you will manage a high-functioning team and hire aggressively to build and drive our vision going forward. With a strong leadership and a culture of challenge, support, and feedback, you will grow your skills and talents so you can scale with the new opportunities that arise as the organization expands.
Key job responsibilitiesAbout the team
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- 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