Software Development Manager, Alexa Shopping-Core
Company websiteamazon.com (Amazon, opens in new tab)
Base salary $184,900 to $250,200
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Seattle, WA
You apply on the employer's own site. Six Figure Work does not handle applications.
- LocationSeattle, WA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (19 min ago) · observed since
About this job
Alexa is a strategic investment for Amazon, and we're building AI-powered agentic shopping experiences that help millions of customers save time and money every day. The Alexa Shopping team is bringing the full power of Amazon.com to conversational and chat interfaces, reimagining how customers discover products, manage their lists, buy everyday essentials and groceries, and make confident purchase decisions through voice, touch, and generative AI.
This is a 0→1 opportunity. We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team that owns how Alexa Shopping builds software: an AI-native development platform that takes a customer experience from idea to production and keeps improving it after launch. The role spans three connected areas. The first is developer experience, with agentic tooling that carries engineers from requirements through design, build, test, and release. The second is quality intelligence, a framework that defines and enforces the quality bar for everything Alexa Shopping ships. The third is an AI-enabled reinforcement loop that turns live production signals into detected defects, drafted fixes, and regression gates. You'll make the foundational architectural calls and set the technical direction the rest of the org builds against.
The scope is horizontal by design. Rather than owning one customer experience, you'll own the capability all of them depend on — which means your decisions compound across the entire org. Success looks like teams shipping new experiences in half the time with fewer defects reaching customers. AI does the work at each step of the lifecycle, and engineers spend their judgment where it matters most.
You'll work at the intersection of agentic systems, machine learning, developer productivity, and e-commerce, partnering with engineers, applied scientists, and product leaders across Alexa and Amazon. If you've built something from the ground up before and want to change how software gets built at Amazon scale, this is that role.
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. 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, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
Source: Amazon · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($184,900) is above 82% of the 1,389 Software Engineering roles in Washington listed on this site; 80 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $143,700; the middle half runs from $143,700 to $168,100.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingSoftware Development Manager, Alexa Shopping-Core$184,900 to $250,200
Software Development Manager, Volume Metadata, EBS$184,900 to $250,200
Sr. Robotics Software Engineer, Fauna$184,900 to $250,200
Software Development Manager, Off-Amazon Selection$184,900 to $250,200
Software Development Manager, AWS Proactive Security / AWS Piezo, AWS Proactive Security - AWS Piezo$184,900 to $250,200
Sr. SDE, Agentic Systems, Technical Content Experience (TCX) Engineering$184,900 to $250,200
Software Development Manager, AWS Quick$184,900 to $250,200
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Software Development Manager, Alexa Shopping-Core (this listing) | $184,900 - $250,200 |
| Software Development Manager, Volume Metadata, EBS | $184,900 - $250,200 |
| Sr. Robotics Software Engineer, Fauna | $184,900 - $250,200 |
| Software Development Manager, Off-Amazon Selection | $184,900 - $250,200 |
| Software Development Manager, AWS Proactive Security / AWS Piezo, AWS Proactive Security - AWS Piezo | $184,900 - $250,200 |
| Sr. SDE, Agentic Systems, Technical Content Experience (TCX) Engineering | $184,900 - $250,200 |
| Software Development Manager, AWS Quick | $184,900 - $250,200 |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-06-23
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: US, WA, Seattle
USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
- Method
- Employer text, read with fixed rules and re-verified
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The pay passage appears in the employer's own job text. Fixed, deterministic rules located it, and the passage below was checked against the stored copy of the posting.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.