Software Development Manager, Alexa Customer Journeys
DESCRIPTION
The Alexa Customer Journeys team is hiring a talented Software Development Manager to help build experiences for suggesting delightful, tailored experiences to discover all the ways Alexa can assist them in their daily life. The role makes a direct impact to our customers, show measurable success, and work with the artificial intelligence systems.
If you are holding out for an opportunity to:
• Make a huge impact as an individual
• Be part of a team of smart and passionate professionals who will challenge you to grow every day
• Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in the latest software technology
• Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people
• Work with artificial intelligence systems to deliver real experiences
Primary Responsibilities:
We are looking for a seasoned SDM to design/build massive scale, distributed computing solutions. You will be responsible for driving the team’s structuring, growth, technical direction, strategizing and shaping our long-term vision and architecture. You will own major deliverables end-to-end, drive roadmaps, and provide technical leadership to the engineering team. If you're excited by cloud computing, designing highly secure, scalable, fault tolerant systems, and want to be challenged by tough computer science problems, then join us.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in software with focus on distributed systems, web services, and high availability production systems.
- Work with PE, Sr.SDE, TPM and Product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide new products from scratch.
- Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
- Project management - prioritization , planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
- Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services
- Mentor and grow your team
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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
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