Software Development Manager, API Gateway Workflows Team

About the role

API Gateway is a critical component of the Serverless revolution, enabling customers to deploy scalable, fault-tolerant applications without needing to manage underlying infrastructure. This role involves leading a team of engineers to deliver high-impact, scalable software that protects millions of customer workloads.

Responsibilities

• Manage team performance, career development, and growth through regular coaching, mentorship, and feedback
• Evaluate trade-offs between operational excellence and feature development, balancing short-term needs with long-term architectural goals
• Collaborate cross-functionally with security, networking, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Own the outcomes of a team delivering high-impact software that protects millions of customer workloads
• Work with other leaders across the organization to ensure API Gateway is delivering high impact projects for our customers

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services experience
• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Skills

Our ideal candidate is someone who enjoys being a great people manager, has experience managing a product roadmap, uses data to drive alignment, cares about building an inclusive team culture, recognizes and leverages the strengths of their employees, and challenges them to continue to grow. They should also have experience in designing or architecting new and existing systems, and in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit here.