Amazon Software Development Manager Prime Video Playback Intelligence 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

617392815

Key job responsibilities• Hire, motivate, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team, providing them with appropriate opportunities to succeed in their career objectives.
• Drive charter and roadmaps with your team, management, and principal stakeholders.
• Ensure timely execution of key deliverables, removing blockers and reducing execution risks.
• Work closely with the leadership team to provide input on OP1, roadmaps, and strategic discussions.
• Be deeply involved with engineers to architect and develop the best technical designs and approaches.
• Build operational excellence to reduce lead times and maintain the operations of critical services.
• Clearly communicate technical decisions and progress to both technical and non-technical audiences.A day in the life
You will directly manage a team of engineers working across multiple high-scale services. You will attend standup and sprint ceremonies, review technical designs, meet with other engineering, product and UX leaders from across Prime Video, and offer regular career and technical guidance to your team. You will also be an active participant in the organization through attending review meetings, goal reviews, project update meetings and customer sessions.

- 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