Software Development Manager, Amazon Connect

Amazon•Seattle, WA

About The Position

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. Amazon Connect is one of the fastest-growing product in AWS. We provide contact center technology that powers the largest enterprises on earth. Imagine it’s April 15 (Tax day in US), and millions of Americans rely on our technology to get their tax questions answered so they can file their tax returns on time. Or imagine it’s Cyber Monday, one of the largest shopping days of the year, and millions of Amazon.com customers place their calls through our systems to order gifts for their family. Those are the type of scale we handle in Amazon Connect everyday. Our team is growing fast, and we’re looking for a Software Development Manager to help us continue to hire and grow the team and set the architectural direction into the future. As a software development manager on our team, you’ll help to establish teams to imagine and implement new features, evolve our architecture and scale, work closely with senior technical leaders within the team and across AWS. You’ll coordinate feature development across teams, ensuring new functionality fits into the broader slate of AWS services. You’ll drive a culture that values operational excellence, security, customer focus, and continuous improvement. You will guide a diverse, smart, and hardworking team. We’re parents, artists, adventurers, and athletes who enjoy time outside of the office. We’ve worked hard to create a trusting, collaborative, diverse, and supportive atmosphere. We’re looking for a positive, enthusiastic, driven, and personable manager to continue this environment and lead this team. Come join us, and start your next challenge!

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

help to establish teams to imagine and implement new features
evolve our architecture and scale
work closely with senior technical leaders within the team and across AWS
coordinate feature development across teams, ensuring new functionality fits into the broader slate of AWS services
drive a culture that values operational excellence, security, customer focus, and continuous improvement
guide a diverse, smart, and hardworking team