Software Development Manager, Ads Marketing, ME&I Engineering

About the role

Join us in revolutionizing how Amazon connects with advertisers. Our Marketing Effectiveness & Intelligence (ME&I) engineering team is at the forefront of innovation, developing technology that drives advertiser growth, understanding, and success on Amazon Ads. We're seeking a dynamic and customer-obsessed Software Development Manager to lead the charge in designing, developing, and maintaining highly scalable distributed services for Ads Marketing org.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 13+ software engineers building the communication platform that powers all of Ads organization at scale for sending marketing and transactional communications.
• Partner with Product, Science and Marketing teams to define and execute the technical roadmap.
• Drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, and long term vision for 40+ services spanning across front-end, back-end, big data and agentic AI space.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and quality metrics while fostering a culture of operational excellence and builder empowerment.
• Team Management: Build and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, and career development. Foster an inclusive team culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. Manage sprint planning, resource allocation, and delivery timelines across multiple work-streams. Provide regular feedback and growth opportunities to team members.

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Basic 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
• Preferred 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