Software Development Manager, Checkout Platform

Wherever a shopper starts their journey with Amazon, Checkout is the destination. Tens of millions of people a week make their way through Checkout"s customer experiences and systems on the way to being delighted by their purchase. Our mission is to be the most trusted and delightfully easy purchase experience on Earth. We have outsized ability for customer and business impact and own mission critical distributed systems infrastructure used by hundreds of engineers across the company. Weve evolved our operations models to suit with well-supported, follow-the-sun on-call with our sibling teams across the globe. We care deeply about our people and our software: we are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive environment where everyone can be successful.

As the manager on Checkout, you will be part of the core engineering team at Amazon building the underlying checkout platform used by hundreds of millions of customers across the world every day. You will be directly responsible for the availability of the platform and the latency of the checkout experience, holding the highest standards to ensure that changes from software builders do not regress performance for customers. You will collaborate closely with product and program management teams to translate customer needs into technical priorities and deliver results. You will also change how the team operates by championing AI-native development practices that accelerate velocity and improve quality. A successful Software Development Manager should be highly autonomous with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze quantitatively, scope technical requirements, effectively prioritize program deliverables, and communicate clearly. If you seek a challenge to lead engineering teams to build large-scale innovative software products powering the mission-critical Checkout experience on Amazon, then come join us in making history!