Posted 12 days ago
Software Development Manager, Books Discovery
@ Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC is hiring a Software Development Manager for its Books Discovery team in Toronto. The role leads engineers building book search, recommendations and reader discovery, and sets priorities with business owners. The posting states a base salary of 171,400 to 286,200 CAD annually, with health, RRSP and DPSP benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a team of software engineers
- Set team priorities with business owners
- Ensure timely, high-quality deliveries
- Manage performance and careers of team members
- Manage stakeholder expectations and investments
Requirements summary:
- 3+ years engineering team management
- 7+ years working within engineering teams
- 8+ years leading multi-tier web services
- Knowledge of full software development life cycle practices
- Experience partnering with product or program management
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Source type not verified · amazon
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-25
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-28
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Manager |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 7+ years |
| Management experience | 3+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Retirement plan, Performance bonus, Stock or equity, Wellness |
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Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC
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Description
Passionate about books and reading? Books have a long history at Amazon; books were our first retail product, we reinvented reading with Kindle, and today we enable reading across a multitude of surfaces and content types. The Books Content Demand team helps readers find books and authors through relevant content, search results and recommendations, and innovative shopping experiences. We set audacious goals and are looking for people who can help us transform the way we engage with readers and help them find their next book.
As a Software Development Manager, you will lead a collection of skilled, friendly people from all over the world and collaborate with business owners to build a clear roadmap of priorities that serve our customers. You own implementing the mechanisms that ensure timely deliveries that are of the highest quality. You are responsible for developing your people, and for managing their performance and careers. You will have significant agency to decide the priorities of the team in order to balance operational excellence and new customer deliveries, and you will contribute to the mechanisms that help manage stakeholder expectations and garner support for your future investments.
If you love books, are a strong engineering leader, and you're excited to navigate ambiguous spaces to identify new opportunities, we'd love to hear from you.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ 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
- 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
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. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, ON, Toronto - 171,400.00 - 286,200.00 CAD annually
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