AmazonSoftware Development Manager, Digital Acceleration
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Manager, Digital Acceleration in Bellevue, United States. It pays $185k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions AWS, Big Data and software development among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a lead role.
- Amazon has 21,000+ other open roles on Level.
- Posted within the past week.
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Lead a software engineering team building AI-augmented accounting automation tools and financial record-keeping systems.
The Financial Record Keeping (FRK) organization within Digital Acceleration is reimagining accounting automation with AI: simplifying and speeding up end-to-end accounting automation through a new architecture and AI augmented accounting automation capabilities. As a Software Development Manager, you will independently lead a team of software engineers while shaping the technical direction of next-generation financial automation programs. You will influence architecture decisions across multiple teams, partner with business stakeholders, and drive product direction in a space where complex problems meet real customer impact. If you enjoy working through ambiguity, defining strategic paths, and building systems at massive scale using AWS and big data technologies, this is the role for you.
Key job responsibilities
- You will define and manage a product roadmap to build specialized AI tools to manage accounting automation for Amazon.
- Define and drive the technical vision and architectural direction for financial record keeping systems that support Amazon's digital businesses at scale.
- Lead and grow an inclusive team of software development engineers — recruit top talent, coach and develop engineers at multiple levels, and create an environment where the team delivers successfully and sustainably.
- Contribute to system design discussions, evaluate tradeoffs across scalability, maintainability, and performance, and guide your team through deep-dive troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners — including product management, peer engineering teams, and business stakeholders — to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and deliver cohesive solutions.
- Establish operational excellence practices, publish meaningful metrics, and build mechanisms that improve software quality, reduce repeated work, and enhance the customer experience over time.
A day in the life
Your morning might start with a design review where your engineers walk through a proposed architecture for a new accounting automation service, and you help the team pressure-test assumptions and tradeoffs. After that, you join a cross-team sync with product and business partners to align on upcoming roadmap priorities. In the afternoon, you spend time in a one-on-one with a direct report, discussing their career growth plan and identifying stretch opportunities. Later, you review operational metrics for your services and work with the team to triage an emerging trend before it becomes a customer-facing issue.
About the team
The Digital Acceleration FRK team builds the financial record keeping systems that power Kindle eBooks, Prime Video, Amazon Appstore, Amazon Music, Digital Software and Video Games, and a growing list of Amazon's digital businesses. We process billions of transactions each year and our work directly enables these businesses to scale worldwide.
Our team is a mix of software engineers, technical program managers, and product partners who collaborate closely to reimagine how accounting automation works at Amazon's scale. We are focused on building a new architecture that will serve as the foundation for financial automation across digital commerce for years to come — and we are looking for a leader who is excited to help shape that future.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 3+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ 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
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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Bellevue - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Software Development Manager, Digital Acceleration at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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