Software Development Manager

Job summary:

My team is leading new initiatives to trend set the customer experience and improve engagement on Fire TV devices and build performant consumer facing experiences for TV. We are working on several strategic technical projects which deliver large scalable cloud services and high profile client/libraries.

Key job responsibilities:

Help re-invent how millions of people watch TV!

Fire TV remains the #1 best-selling streaming media player in the US. As we continue to evolve the customer experiences on our products, we are looking for experienced software engineers to lead initiatives on Fire TV.

In this role, you will deliver some of our most strategic technical projects, deliver large scalable systems, build the trend setting Fire TV core experience and product vision. The role is inherently cross-functional -- you will work closely with UX, PM and external teams to deliver key initiatives that impact millions of customers.

We are looking for someone with a deep customer focus, as well as a passion for feature experimentation in video and entertainment space and have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications and services with broad business impact. This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience and an enormous opportunity to lead the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day by people you know.

Responsibilities:

Help develop technical roadmap, strategy, customer experience and roadmap for FireTV product initiatives

Facilitate the technical architecture between multiple complex systems.

Create buy-in for the technical vision and strategy both internally and with key external partners

Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, schedule, performance and cost

Proactively identify and resolve technical risks and issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic or technical goals.

Collaborate with cross-functional team to deliver the best product for our customers

Experience managing high performance team and a track record hiring and building a team

A day in the life

The role is cross-functional- requires to work closely with UX, PM, and external teams/partners to deliver key initiatives which impact millions of customers.

About the team

The charter of the team is to provide the best discovery and consumption experience to our customers, while enabling our 1P partners (Prime Video, Amazon Advertising, Appstore, etc.) to drive the Amazon flywheel, and our 3P partners to succeed in their business goals on Fire TV.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams

Experience in partnering with product and program management teams

3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar technical field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of Android applications and framework

Knowledge of Android/Java coding

Ability to debug problems from logs

Experience using tools like JIRA.

Experience with UX design

Proven track record of managing multiple work streams concurrently.

Strong written and verbal communication

Strong problem solving skills.

Proven track record of managing SDLC

Ability to influence teams without authority

Comfortable reporting to senior leadership

Track record of effectively escalating issues when needed

Experience managing high performance team and a track record hiring and building a team

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