We're on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new automotive discovery and shopping products that connect customers with their vehicle of choice. We're looking for a talented Software Development Manager to lead engineering team and collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to design, develop, and test innovative automotive-shopping experiences for our customers. As an SDM, you would enjoy a fast-paced environment where you can obsess over customers by creating scalable automation solutions to improve the overall quality of testing and partner team operational work.

Key job responsibilities
As Software Development Manager you will build an engineering team responsible for delivering significant features, test framework, across this new automotive shopping initiative. You will work directly with product management to define requirements and apply your technical expertise and leadership skills to organize and guide your team to solve difficult software problems in a fast-paced environment. You’ll work with your team to create and execute technical goals, roadmaps and vision that deliver amazing customer experiences and inspire your engineers to build innovative, high-quality and operationally excellent software and systems. You will lead the technical planning, coordination, architecture, and implementation of multiple programs across our new automotive shopping initiative. In addition, providing support and guidance to all (SDE/SDET/QAEs) in building and extending automation coverage by developing test scripts and utilities that enable the testers and developers, and driving the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies.

A day in the life
As Software Development Manager, you and your engineering team will work alongside Designers, SDE, SDET, Program Managers and Product Managers to create and execute on product and tech roadmaps. You will manage the lifecycle (architecture, design, implementation, documentation and measurement) of your team's software. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.

About the team
This is a critical role to deliver our product vision of innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection with highest quality standards. We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.