Amazon Software Development Manager Alexa Experiences Endpoint 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

551828641

As a Software Engineering Manager on the Alexa Home team within Alexa Devices, you will help drive innovation by developing features that present innovative speech-backed visual experiences on our Echo Show devices and similar screened Alexa devices.Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager , your key responsibilities include:• Drive technical vision and architecture decisions for backend systems
• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team
• Drive Agile execution and sprint planning
• Partner with Product and Design teams on roadmap priorities
• Ensure service reliability and availability
• Communicate technical decisions and progress to leadership
• Recruit and retain top engineering talent
• Review and approve critical technical designs
• Manage stakeholder expectations across teams
• Monitor team health and key performance metrics
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices
• Contribute to long-term technical strategy
• Provide regular status updates on key initiatives
• Balance immediate delivery needs with long-term strategic goals

- 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