Amazon Software Development Manager III Walk Tech 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

972582233

The Role: This individual will shape his/her organization, its structure and processes with the goal of building embedded software systems that enable various new hardware sensing options as well as continue support and operational excellence of our existing biometric or RFID or vision or sensor fusion based solutions. This leader should be able to set up the overall embedded system design for new hardware products that covers low level embedded firmware, enabling reliability and manufacturing teams, integration with back-end cloud infrastructure, provisioning and security infrastructure details. This individual is also expected to build strong and mature organization of embedded engineers with successors in place who have the ability to take on a broader leadership role in a few years.
• Recruit, manage and lead a world class team of software and system developer engineers with focus on end to end embedded IoT system design.
• Work with the hardware, reliability and manufacturing, cloud back-end infrastructure, security, provisioning and business organizations in Seattle, Cupertino and internationally to execute on the current software and firmware deliverables to enable our product strategy for JWO technology.
• Make high judgment decisions on how to accomplish and prioritize among new features, operational efficiency improvements, software resiliency and reliability initiatives.
• Lead a team that will design and implement robust production grade firmware solutions for various embedded IoT devices end to end including provisioning, security and cloud integration. The team will also provide board bring-up, testing and troubleshooting as well as maintaining and building on existing IoT infrastructure and platform.
• Continue to raise the bar on operational excellence of our existing technical solutions (Firmware management for our existing solutions in Embedded Linux, FreeRTOS and Android)
• Lead by example and foster technical innovation within the team through design reviews, process improvements, identifying technical bottlenecks and encouraging measured risk taking when providing solutions.
• Work closely with cloud back-end infrastructure team to define newer, better interfaces to enable end to end IoT solution for our various sensing products and solutions for JWO technology.
• Strategically develop software and cloud metrics to enable strong data driven approaches for key business decisions.
• You might need to travel to our software or hardware suppliers and vendors world-wide (10% travel).Embedded/firmware/lower level software development experience will be highly regarded.About the team
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- 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
- 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 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