Software Development Manager, Prime Video Commerce, Prime Video Commerce

Software Development Manager, Prime Video Commerce, Prime Video Commerce

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies-all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast paced, growth business-available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

The Prime Video Offers expansion team is the primary owner for delivering an offer to any customer worldwide. We own a critical roadmap that enables our customers to purchase and watch PV WW. Our architecture serves billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, IoT, CloudFront & Java language. We are based in Bengaluru, but work with teams across the world in enabling a customer to view their offers. We take pride in working together as a team, collaborating, and helping each other grow and thrive at Amazon. Come join us for a job that is both challenging and fun!

Key job responsibilities

• Manage 1-2 teams of high caliber Software Engineers working on building, scaling world class, distributed systems.
• Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach SDEs at different levels of experience.
• Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process and development discussions.
• Own all operational metrics and support for your teams' software.
• Drive improvements in software engineering practices across engineering teams.

A day in the life

You will work with a high performing team to deliver a critical roadmap. You will attend critical reviews with them; attend a roadmap trade off discussion with a product leader; and attend a senior leadership review for a critical feature you are delivering. You will be involved in hiring and developing talent across a large organization. You will attend operational reviews to raise the bar on the quality of our software and operational excellence.

About the team

We are the Prime Video Commerce Offers expansion team in Bangalore. We are the primary owner of any Prime Video offer worldwide. We own customer serving services and an exciting charter that directly shapes the growth of Prime Video!

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 3+ years of engineering team management 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.
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.

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.

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