Software Development Manager, Device OS

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Manager, you bring structure to ambiguous business problems and use science, logic, and practical experience to decompose them into straightforward, scalable solutions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems; you're interested in learning and acquiring skills as needed.

A day in the life

You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences. You will lead teams to create new solutions in a responsive, flexible, and collaborative environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices.

The ideal candidate is a strong, creative, and highly motivated tech leader with hands-on experience in leading multiple research and engineering initiatives. You balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology, methodologies, and team development.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 8+ years of experience leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services
• 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 live site operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers developing complex, scalable software systems successfully delivered to customers

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software features, and define product strategies
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness

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