Software Development Manager, Alexa Devices - Seattle
Interested in Amazon Echo? Want to create products that will reach more than 100 million customers? Come join a close-knit team that's evolving the definition of Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant.
Amazon Alexa started with the vision of delivering the Star Trek computer to our customers. Today, customers can already ask Alexa to control their smart homes, TVs, play music, and get information, news, weather, and more using just their voice.We are now augmenting Alexa’s voice
- forward interaction model with a range of experiences such as rich animated visuals, video, and immersive audio.
- what you see on devices today is just the beginning
- it's still Day 1.
Our software powers those experiences on our Echo family of devices, Fire Tablets, Amazon Fire TV, and many more. Our Alexa Skills Kit developer tools and Alexa Presentation Language APIs allow anyone to write applications for our devices. We're committed to open source software, and are working to build a community around both our software stack and tools.
You’ve found the right team if you are a passionate leader with experience building innovative applications that customers love. You will join a organization that's growing in Seattle and Vancouver and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.
We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!
Key job responsibilities- Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives.
- Foster a culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
- Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; building a strong cross-functional organization.
- Create, prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.
- Manage the overall software development life-cycle.
- Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical designs and approaches.
- Collaborate with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes.
- Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon.- 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
- 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.