Software Development Manager, Ads Tech
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 6, 2026. Amazon scores A on the Alion truth index.
Ads Sales Tech is responsible for designing and developing applications for enabling our advertisers to better leverage and benefit from Ads products.
In this role, you will create the vision for your team, develop your team, make important time investments hiring, and define the technological roadmap by partnering up with Principal Engineers and Product Managers.
This position requires technical background in operating systems, software development, and systems development, with detailed planning, operational excellence, operational management and effective written and verbal communication skills, adapting to the different levels of audiences in the company.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage and develop the teams that engineer key Ads technologies, including hiring, retention, performance management, mentoring and capability/skill development.
- Evaluate complex business and technical requirements, and communicate inherent risks and solutions to technical and non-technical business owners.
- Create vision for your team, planning focused on timely delivery, driving operational activities and on-call rotation for your team.
- Influence other teams and leaders outside your organization, work hand-in-hand with Principal Engineers, diving deep into technical areas as needed, and coordinate with other teams working in the same space spread across the world. Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment Preferred qualifications
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
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
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