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Software Development Manager, Benefits Experience & Technology (BXT)

Amazon • Arlington, Virginia, United States


No Relocation

Posted: October 2, 2026

Description
  • Our mission is to make it easy for employees and their family to discover and use the benefits that apply to them. Today’s traditional benefit experiences rely heavily on content, explanations, and instructions
Description
  • Our mission is to make it easy for employees and their family to discover and use the benefits that apply to them. Today’s traditional benefit experiences rely heavily on content, explanations, and instructions for people to understand what’s available to them and how to use it. We are bringing personalized and friction-free benefits to the tip of the fingers of over five million people (our employees and their dependents). Amazon Benefits help them live richer and fuller lives, be it by helping them in a moment of medical need, saving for retirement, or helping them with a vacation. We are building a delightful mobile and web experience integrated with internal and external systems, so employees don’t have to go through hoops to get what they want. No employer has ever done this level of experience or personalization before and we are breaking new ground. As a leader on this team, you will influence and drive architectural and design choices and develop world-class interfaces. Our team culture encourages innovation and we expect engineers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery. We need a leader who can cut through the noise, passionately simplify, deliver results, and manage a diverse team. Key job responsibilities - Lead the architectural design and development of critical platform features, ensuring solutions are highly scalable, maintainable, and align with AWS best practices - Drive technical excellence through mentorship of junior engineers and establishment of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices - Architect and implement AI-powered solutions leveraging AWS services to enable predictive support capabilities and automated workflow orchestration - Design and build robust integration patterns between multiple HR systems while ensuring data security and compliance - Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions - Lead cross-team technical initiatives and drive consensus on architectural decisions - Champion operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of system reliability - Partner with SDE-IIIs and Principal Engineers to drive execution of 3-year architecture plans (3YAP) and tradeoff decisions balancing long-term vision with immediate customer impact - Mentor SDE-Is on engineering excellence and leadership principles; partner with SDMs and PMs to deliver team-level goals
Basic Qualifications
  • - 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 in engineering team management - Experience in engineering - Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services - Experience partnering with product and program management teams
Preferred Qualifications