Software Development Manager, Alexa Endpoints

Software Development Manager, Alexa Endpoints

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Alexa+ is our next-generation, AI-powered digital assistant. Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, intelligent, and personalized than previous versions – helping you get things done with ease. Whether it’s entertainment, learning, organization, summarization, or open-ended conversation, Alexa+ can assist. Alexa+ can also manage and protect your smart home, make reservations, discover new content, and help you shop online.

We’re looking for entrepreneurs who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of product ownership, and want to have fun while they make history. Customers have now purchased over half a billion Alexa-enabled devices. Join us as we innovate at scale to shape the future of human-computer interaction on mobile and web!

• Lead your development team to launch new building blocks and features, partnering closely with product, design, quality, and many teams across Alexa to build new experiences as we evolve into a more intelligent AI product.
• Influence overall strategy by helping define product features, driving the system architecture, and spearheading the best practices that enable a high-quality product.
• Develop the best and have opportunities to build a team and mentor others by sharing knowledge across multiple teams to build a truly unique app experience across Alexa endpoints.

You will work in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will lead an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development. To build our experiences, you will interact with product teams to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and provide technical solutions required in defining our next-generation products.

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability and scaling
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams
• 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 customer-facing product development and product management, including defining, launching, and optimizing product and services

• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective, product-focused software engineers
• Experience managing a team of high-calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world-class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include working safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhering to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicating effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and following all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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