Software Development Manager, Amazon Freight, Amazon Freight
Role Overview
Amazon Freight is developing a transportation network for its Less-Than-Truckload and Truckload businesses.
Booking and execution efficiency are important to service quality, network utilization, carrier performance, and long-term profitability.
The role leads engineering teams building technology, tools, and data models for freight execution and changing network scenarios.
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Role overview
Amazon Freight is developing a transportation network for its Less-Than-Truckload and Truckload businesses.
Booking and execution efficiency are important to service quality, network utilization, carrier performance, and long-term profitability.
The role leads engineering teams building technology, tools, and data models for freight execution and changing network scenarios.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business and technical teams to design and document requirements and develop technical strategies and software roadmaps.
- Lead engineers in architecting and developing large-scale distributed technology solutions.
- Provide technology direction, pursue innovative ideas, and balance immediate delivery with longer-term architectural improvements.
- Mentor engineers, align stakeholders, and support the team's delivery through development cycles.
- Build capabilities that improve freight booking and execution efficiency and support network performance.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
- 7+ years of engineering experience.
- 8+ years leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
- Knowledge of engineering practices across the development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, certification, and live-site operations.
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
- Experience designing or architecting systems for reliability and scaling.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership about requirements, software features, technical designs, and product strategy.
- Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching, and managing software engineering teams.
About Amazon Freight
Amazon Freight operates Less-Than-Truckload and Truckload transportation services.
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