Software Development Manager, Amazon Quick

About the Role

Amazon Quick is a generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. It empowers users to be more creative, data-driven, efficient, prepared, and productive. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate, work backwards from our customers, and be at the forefront of generative-AI powered innovation. We are looking for a Software Development Manager who is a creative problem-solver, thrives in a start-up like environment and is energized by tackling complex technical challenges to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI. Our team collaborates closely across roles to rapidly build, test and iterate as we create an AI solution that delivers real business value.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead an elite team of development engineers to define, drive and execute on our product vision.
• Invent and ship software that directly impacts our end customer experience.
• Develop your team of highly motivated and talented builders who can collaborate with applied scientists, product managers, technical specialists, and principals across the company.
• Lead the overall development life cycle of software solutions and manage complex projects with significant impact.
• Coordinate with your senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for product development.
• Assure that your team's designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Prioritize, plan projects and features, manage partners, and track external commitments.
• Monitor operation of production services to ensure Operational Excellence.
• Foster the career development of your direct reports.

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 Full Stack and Gen-AI development
• 5+ years shipping production software with depth in distributed Python services, TypeScript/React desktop apps, or LLM-backed agent runtimes
• Strong Python and TypeScript/React, with Electron production experience
• WebSockets and event-driven streaming architectures
• LLM application engineering on AWS Bedrock or comparable platforms — agent frameworks, orchestration, and interoperability protocols (MCP, A2A, ACP)
• Approaches for Memory and Knowledge graphs, semantic search, and vector stores
• Owns features end-to-end: tests, evals, telemetry, docs, code review

Pay

USA, CA, Santa Clara - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually. 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.

Benefits

• 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
• Parental leave

Schedule

This is a full-time position.

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