Software Development Manager, Rendering Foundations in Vancouver

Are you excited by how AI agents are changing the way customers shop? Do you want to build the platform that brings Amazon's shopping experiences to every surface where customers meet an agent, and that lets those agents compose experiences on their own?

Our team builds the experience orchestration platform behind the Amazon store. It composes independently owned experiences into complete pages at Amazon scale and powers experiences such as Detail Page across web and app. We are looking for a Software Development Manager to build and lead a new team in Vancouver that owns agentic CX and experience orchestration interfaces. The team will extend the platform so agents can render and compose shopping experiences, and it will own the authoring language and toolchain that builders and AI agents use to create those experiences.

You are the ideal candidate if you thrive on greenfield problems, are customer obsessed, and can turn an emerging space into a clear product vision and roadmap. You are a technical leader with a track record of building and growing strong teams from the ground up. You treat developer experience with the same rigor as customer experience, are comfortable with ambiguity, enjoy working across many partner teams, and lead with AI-native development practices.

Key job responsibilities:

• Build, lead, and grow a diverse, inclusive, high-performing engineering team, including recruiting, mentoring, motivating, promoting, and performance management.
• Set the technical vision and roadmap for agentic CX, covering how AI agents discover, render, and compose shopping experiences.
• Own the experience orchestration authoring language end to end.
• Build evaluation pipelines that score agent-generated output against known-good results.
• Deliver the developer experience around the authoring model.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams across the store and shopping agents.
• Provide technical leadership on architecture and design.
• Prioritize and execute against goals on time, manage cross-team dependencies, and mitigate risks.

Basic qualifications:

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams 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 development life cycle.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building a new team or launching a greenfield product.
• Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, languages, compilers, or infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, server-driven UI, or rendering and layout platforms.
• Experience with LLM-based applications, AI agents, agent protocols, or evaluating LLM output quality.
• Experience driving AI-native software development practices within an engineering team.

Key job responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of software development engineers operating at the scale of the Amazon Store within an Agile environment.
• Think big and partner with executive leadership and business stakeholders to define strategy and chart a compelling roadmap.
• Own end-to-end management and execution against the roadmap, project plans, and delivery commitments.
• Establish mechanisms to monitor operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with engineers to architect and deliver the best technical design and approach for each challenge.
• Define and cultivate an inclusive team culture that fosters individual growth and collective success.
• Create a work environment where people have fun, do their best work, and advance in their careers.

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.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership.
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers.