Software Development Manager, Alexa Calendar
About The Position
Alexa+ is an AI assistant, built on top of the latest advancements in Generative AI. With 600+ million Alexa devices in the world, Alexa+ is reinventing the Customer Experience, completing complex tasks, being proactive and personal. Calendar is one of the key domains within Alexa+, helping families manage their household schedule and aiming to become the smartest AI assistant in the market. We are rapidly expanding our customer base and interfaces, making it easier for customers to connect and interact, making daily life easier to manage. If you are looking for a role working in the latest technology while also delivering critical customer value, this is the place.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- Leading a team delivering Calendar features.
- Owning the customer facing experience for Calendar on top Alexa+ LLM based experiences.
- Working closely with various key stakeholders.
- Managing the roadmap, proposing, aligning, and communicating trade offs to generate the optimal value to customers, providing timely visibility to all stakeholders including senior leadership.
- Ensuring the team operates efficiently, leveraging latest Generative AI based tools as well as the appropriate cross-platform user-experience frameworks, developing experiences across multiple device types.
- Working closely with senior leaders across Alexa to deliver strategic initiatives.
- Engaging cross-functional leaders from product and partner tech teams to conceptualize, scope, and plan upcoming deliveries, ensuring alignment on priorities and technical approaches.
- Managing project planning by breaking down complex initiatives into actionable tasks, coordinating delivery timelines with the team, and actively tracking progress to identify and resolve blockers.
- Communicating delivery status to stakeholders, providing transparent updates on milestones, risks, and achievements.
- Shaping the vision, goals, and technical strategy by staying attuned to customer needs and market opportunities.
- Mentoring engineers through complex technical challenges, guiding design trade-offs.
- Maintaining a relentless focus on innovating on behalf of customers.
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- paid time off
- other resources to improve health and well-being
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
