Software Development Manager - Sunnyvale, United States - Amazon Services LLC

Amazon Services LLC

Verified Company

Sunnyvale, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

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

Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary reading device.

Our vision with the Kindle is to make every book ever published, in any language, available to Kindle customers instantly.

Leading innovations on furthering the reading experiences will drive the future of digital reading of complex non-fiction content and complex language specific layouts.

In order to make this possible, we are looking for leaders with a passion for solving challenging technical problems and create superior reading and content discovery experiences.

We are seeking an innovative, results-oriented customer-centric Software Development Manager to be part of the Kindle Reader organization.

You should have gone through at least two full software delivery lifecycles with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on software development experience and at least 2 years experience managing teams.

You should have demonstrated solid leadership skills in a fast-paced and demanding work environment and be very comfortable with delivering solutions of complex nature for mobile devices.

Key Responsibilities:

Mentoring and Developing software engineers at different experience levels
Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments; manage the daytoday activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a bestofclass engineering team
Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and tradeoffs and partner with Engineering teams for endtoend solutions for best customer experience
Participate in periodic product strategy sessions and planning team roadmap and strategy
Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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