Amazon Software Development Manager FTVX Team Whole World 

United States, Texas, Arlington 

557616289

Key job responsibilities* Lead a team that develop and improve software for entity linking, curation and aggregation for FireTV devices
* Help develop technical roadmap, strategy, customer experience and roadmap for FireTV product initiatives
* 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.
* Encourage exploration and employment of state-of-the-art technologies including AI, distributed data processing, data processing at scale with high uptime and AWS-managed services to enable the development of breakthrough customer experiences.* Contribute towards shaping the next-gen digital media catalog solution that drives best-in-class customer experience on FireTV.
* Review, scope and collaborate with team members to prioritize features requested by stakeholders or which are necessary to scale the cloud systems
* Drive continuous improvements with the team’s processes and practices.
* Mentor engineers, and participate in the hiring process for open roles within our organization

- 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