Description

Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo.

What will you help us create?

We are looking for a Manager of Software Engineering obsessed to deliver flawless entertainment through a wide range of FireTV devices anywhere in the world. You understand how to map complex customer journeys, establish metrics to measure success and failures across these journeys and establish resiliency best practices across device & services ecosystem.

The ideal candidate is equally obsessed with delivering the best possible customer experiences and leading and building strong teams. They define software architecture, communicating effectively with engineers, partners, leaders and a broad set of stakeholders. This leader can think long-term, advocate for strong engineering excellence, and bring in their own software development best practices as well as follow best practices from the broader development community in Amazon. The ideal candidate has a passion for TV and video entertainment combined with an established track record delivering break-out consumer software experiences.

Key job responsibilities

As leader, lead Tech org consists of SDE's, TPMs and SDET's.

Manage and develop the team, including hiring, retention, performance management, mentoring and capability/skill development.

Lead E2E architecture, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of technology-focused tools and services.

Provide leadership and innovation in the design and implementation of services to enable new products and services.

Evaluate complex business and technical requirements, and communicate inherent risks and solutions to technical and non-technical business owners.

Act as point of contact for communications dealing with project deliverables, setting the expectation, managing priorities, technologies, human factors and management issues.

Establish consistence project management processes, standards and guidelines in the execution of program wide security efforts. Engage enterprise wide teams as needed with focus on results.

Finally, our products being a part of one of the World's largest production ecosystem requires all candidates to balance sustaining and stability issues for a 24x7 environment with new development.

A day in the life

If you join our team, you will get to build new products and features from the ground up. You will lead teams that define, build features and product experiences used by thousands of customers watching FireTV. We work across multiple internal teams as well as product to define what we are building and make it a reality. As the FireTV org we get to work horizontally across many exciting new device types.

About the team

This team’s primary focus is to develop the product and experiences to swiftly create delightful, performant, and interactive devices for our FireTV ecosystem. We are responsible for working closely with product managers and end customers to build the right features, devices and cloud experiences that enlight customers. As a part of the FireTV organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end from product conception to ultimately shipping on the vast number of Amazon FireTV devices in the field.

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

• 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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