Amazon Applied Scientist SPX AI Lab 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

255516264

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager, you will manage a group of talented SDEs and work with them on the design, implementation, and delivery of large technology initiatives for Prime Video Personalization and new content promotions on the PV Homepage.You will be responsible for leading initiatives, managing roadmaps, forward looking technical strategy, and designing/building innovative software solutions for our customers. You will need to be an excellent leader and bridge across various parts of Tech, Product, and business.A day in the life
- Craft a goal update for a key goal that goes up to our VP
- Attend an engineering standup and help unblock a key milestone- Work through a launch-blocker with some engineers
- Talk with Product managers about the requirements for an upcoming project
- Respond to some emails and work through the release strategy for an upcoming project

- 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

- 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