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Software Development Manager III, Alexa Shopping, Post Purchase Customer Experience

Amazon.com Inc

  • Seattle, WA
  • 13 days ago

    Highlights

    We are hiring a Software Development Manager to lead the team responsible for making package tracking faster and smarter, removing friction when customers need help most, and building a post-delivery companion that keeps them informed long after checkout. Partner with product management, applied science, and peer engineering teams to prioritize features, resolve cross-team dependencies, and ship cohesive solutions that reduce friction in the post-purchase journey.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    Every day, millions of customers check on their orders through Alexa. The Post-Purchase experience is at the center of that habit - it is the second most engaged on-demand experience in Alexa Shopping and drives three-quarters of all proactive engagement. We are hiring a Software Development Manager to lead the team responsible for making package tracking faster and smarter, removing friction when customers need help most, and building a post-delivery companion that keeps them informed long after checkout. Our roadmap through 2027 is well defined, and the problems ahead are real: new device endpoints, additional channels, and higher customer expectations. If you want to lead a team whose work customers rely on every single day, this is the role.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Lead and grow a software development team, setting technical direction and establishing team structure to deliver on a multi-year roadmap for the Post-Purchase experience across Alexa endpoints and channels.
    • Define and drive the architecture for distributed, low-latency services at massive scale that power real-time tracking, proactive notifications, and post-delivery experiences for millions of customers.
    • Partner with product management, applied science, and peer engineering teams to prioritize features, resolve cross-team dependencies, and ship cohesive solutions that reduce friction in the post-purchase journey.
    • Establish operational metrics and quality mechanisms to measure customer experience, system health, and team delivery velocity, using data to inform roadmap tradeoffs and continuous improvement.
    • Coach and develop engineers across multiple levels, creating growth plans, providing actionable feedback, and building an inclusive team culture where people do their best work.

    A day in the life

    You start your morning reviewing operational dashboards and triaging any customer-impacting issues with your on-call engineer. Mid-morning you join a design review where your team is iterating on the next generation of proactive delivery notifications. After lunch you sync with your product manager and applied scientists to refine upcoming sprint priorities, then spend time in a one-on-one coaching session with one of your engineers. Later in the afternoon you collaborate with a partner team to align on an API contract for a new channel integration, before wrapping up with a roadmap planning discussion looking ahead to the next quarter.

    About the team

    The Alexa Shopping Post-Purchase team is on a mission to make every moment after a customer places an order effortless and informative. We build the services and experiences that power package tracking, delivery updates, and post-delivery support across Alexa-enabled devices. Our team values collaboration, technical rigor, and a genuine commitment to improving the customer experience. We are investing in expanding to new surfaces and channels, and we are looking for builders who want to shape the future of voice-first commerce at Amazon.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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