Amazon Software Development Manager Kindle Reader 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

110229151

Amazon is looking for an exceptional and motivated Software Development Manager to work in the Kindle Reader organization. As a SDM, you will be responsible for leading a team of talented software engineers responsible for raising the bar on quality, time to market, and automation coverage on large-scale mobile and distributed cloud services to deliver the best reading experience for our global customers. You will work with world-class engineers, business leaders, and other talented engineering teams while you design, architect, and automate systems and processes for the Kindle Reader. You will join a team that is developing a platform on which many other Amazon partner teams innovate their reader experiences. As a leader, you will think big and drive infrastructure, LLM based test frameworks and automation decisions across the Reader organization. You will support multiple devices, surfaces, and services to deliver awesome reader experiences. large-scale mobile and web client applications and distributed cloud services to deliver the best reading experience for our global customers. You will also be responsible for building, maintaining, and organizing your teams, defining the technical strategy and product road map for your organization, as well as defining, measuring, and reporting on your organization’s key performance metrics.
Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate will:• Defining the technical strategy and roadmap
• Responsible for directly hiring, retaining, and growing top management and engineering talent within your group.
• Build and manage a team of engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining software for testing Kindle across the supported surfaces
• Be a champion of quality, automation, and operational excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of quality, automation and operational excellence and a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvements.
• Establish a consistent, project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations, for business partners in multiple geographies.
• Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision.
• Raise the bar on technical excellence, show thought leadership, and communicate well to different audiences.

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 7+ 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