Software Development Manager, Private Brands

Salary: $110,000 - 150,000 per year Requirements:

• We require at least 3 years of experience managing engineering teams.
• We need 7+ years of direct experience working within engineering teams.
• We require 3+ years of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including patterns for reliability and scalability.
• We need a strong grasp of engineering practices across the full software, hardware, and networking development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build workflows, testing, certification, and live site operations.
• We require experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Preferred: experience communicating with users, technical peers, and senior leadership to gather requirements, explain product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Preferred: experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching, and leading software engineering teams to strengthen their effectiveness and technical skills.

• We lead engineering teams building complex back-end systems and agentic solutions for customer-facing products.
• We define and drive both short-term and long-term architectural plans for the product.
• We partner with software development engineers, partner engineers, and engineering managers to shape technical and operational designs that deliver value quickly while protecting the long-term roadmap.
• We refine operational processes and work to lower ongoing costs.
• We act as stewards of a world-class customer experience by continually improving product performance, technical documentation, availability, and scalability.
• We translate business and functional needs into concrete deliverables and user experiences, including design, development, testing, and deployment of highly scalable distributed services and GenAI solutions.
• We hire and develop a large, high-performing engineering team.

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We are Amazon, focused on becoming the most customer-centric company on earth. Our Private Brands provide customers with quality products at great prices, and this role supports new experiences and systems that help customers discover and buy those products. We are an interdisciplinary team that combines engineering and scientific expertise to solve some of Amazons toughest business challenges. This is a high-visibility leadership opportunity in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a base salary range of 171,200 CAD annually, plus total compensation elements that may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units. We also offer comprehensive benefits such as health insurance, retirement savings and profit-sharing plans, paid time off, and other well-being resources. We are an equal opportunity employer with an inclusive culture that supports applicants needing accommodations during the hiring process.

last updated 35 week of 2026