Software Development Manager, Amazon Freight, Amazon Freight

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Manager, Amazon Freight, Amazon Freight in Hyderabad, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Software Development Manager leading engineering teams to build scalable distributed transportation and freight execution systems at Amazon.

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Amazon Freight is building an innovative transportation network with the vision of redefining shipping for its customers. As our Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) and Truckload (TL) business continues to grow, booking and execution efficiency is a critical capability that enables us to deliver competitive service offering while optimizing network utilization, carrier performance, and long-term profitability.

This position requires strong business judgment, exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with operational excellence, is comfortable making data-driven decisions in ambiguous environments, and has experience translating complex transportation economics into scalable network execution strategies. If you are passionate about solving complex transportation problems, influencing cross-functional partners, and building innovative supply chain capabilities that create value for customers while driving sustainable business growth, we'd love to speak with you.

Key job responsibilities
We are building world class technology cutting across deep algorithmic problems, brand new tools that cater to freight execution use-cases and emerging network scenarios; and challenging data models that are evolving very quickly.

In this role, you will partner with business and technical teams to design and document requirements, and develop technical strategies and software roadmaps for delivery of features. You will be leading a passionate group of engineers in architecting and developing large scale distributed technology solutions and also innovating new ideas and providing technology directions to our business.

You'll balance immediate deliverables with planning for longer-term architectural improvements, all while leading your team through development cycles measured in weeks, not years. You'll spend time mentoring engineers, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring your team has what they need to deliver exceptional results.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Preferred qualifications

- 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

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Software Development Manager, Amazon Freight, Amazon Freight at Amazon rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Software Development Manager, Amazon Freight, Amazon Freight is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IN, TS, Hyderabad.
The job was posted on September 29, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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