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Amazon Software Development Manager - Device OS 
India, Karnataka 
958593710

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DESCRIPTION

The Software Development Manager will be part of the Lab126 organization and will be responsible for distributed cloud service development in the org. As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for hiring and leading a team of engineers developing software for cloud systems using AWS components like EC2, Step Functions, Lambda, RDS, and Quicksight. In this position you will partner with product teams, project managers and other internal stakeholders. This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence, Android full-stack expertise and and a good understanding of the system (including low level) In addition, it will require demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment.Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager, you will build and lead a diverse team of engineers to solve complex technical problems that will enable us launch innovative experiences/devices faster and delight our customers. In this position you will partner with an assorted set of stakeholders, primarily tech leaders in the devices business like Fire TV, Tablets, AppStore, to highlight our strategic initiatives in the device solutions space and make them feel compelled to use our solutions in their products. You will influence the roadmap and technology decisions that will drive the adoption of our solutions. You will have a strong focus on keeping the operational excellence bar high while managing these solutions through defining key business metrics and auditing them regularly.
You will be expected to have a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be a motivator and an experienced leader who can hire high-caliber engineers and collaborate across organizations, with the ability to influence senior leadership.A day in the life
In this role, you will:
* Work with Product Management & cross organizational teams to build, integrate and ship solutions at scale
* Establish structures that enable your team to solve complex problems and build innovative solutions
* Provide hands-on tech leadership to team
* Instill best practices for operational excellence, software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules
* Manage team priorities, hiring, mentoring and continuous performance evaluation
* Report on status of development, quality and operations to management

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Deep experience in cloud architecture (preferably AWS) and C++


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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