Software Development Manager, Alexa Endpoints

Amazon•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

Alexa+ is our next-generation, AI-powered digital assistant. Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, intelligent, and personalized than previous versions - helping you get things done with ease. Whether it's entertainment, learning, organization, summarization, or open-ended conversation, Alexa+ can assist. Alexa+ can also manage and protect your smart home, make reservations, discover new content, and help you shop online. We’re looking for entrepreneurs who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of product ownership, and want to have fun while they make history. Customers have now purchased over half a billion Alexa-enabled devices. Join us as we innovate at scale to shape the future of human-computer interaction on mobile and web! You will be responsible for leading your development team to launch new building blocks and features. You will partner closely with product, design, quality, and many teams across Alexa to build new experiences as we evolve into a more intelligent AI product. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. One important aspect of the role is to develop the best, and you’ll have opportunities to build a team and mentor others by sharing your knowledge across multiple teams as we build a truly unique app experience across Alexa endpoints. You will work in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will lead an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development. To build our experiences, you will interact with product teams to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and provide technical solutions required in defining our next generation products.

Requirements

3+ years of engineering team management experience
3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
7+ years of working directly within engineering teams 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 in customer-facing product development and product management, including defining, launching, and optimizing product and services

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
Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Responsibilities

leading your development team to launch new building blocks and features
partnering closely with product, design, quality, and many teams across Alexa to build new experiences as we evolve into a more intelligent AI product
helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product
build a team and mentor others by sharing your knowledge across multiple teams as we build a truly unique app experience across Alexa endpoints
lead an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development
interact with product teams to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and provide technical solutions required in defining our next generation products