Software Development Manager, Prime Video Checkout
Job ID: 2875799 | Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited
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. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 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.
Are you passionate about building, managing and leading a team of engineers who are embarking on a journey to build the next generation of Checkout architecture to accelerate PV’s growth in the next 3-5 years? Your team will be helping millions of customers around the world to subscribe to Prime, TV channels or purchase/rent movies and enjoy live sports.
If so, this is the role for you! Prime Video's Checkout team is looking for a manager to lead a team of engineers who will be working on next generation architecture that supports customers who want to subscribe for Prime, TV Channels, Live sports or to Rent/Buy the hottest movies and TV shows from yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Key job responsibilities
As an engineering manager, you lead a team of smart engineers based in London UK and invest in their growth. You work with the team, stakeholders, and product to refine mechanisms to effectively collaborate, make faster decisions, and deliver on time. You act as an owner of your services and team to deliver for customers and make decisions in the best interest of customers. Collaboration is key to being successful in this role as we have many stakeholders and own a critical customer experience for Prime Video.
You will work with product, Customer Service, UX team, program managers, and key stakeholders globally to identify the right opportunities that your team should focus on. You collect input from multiple sources including products, stakeholders, customer support and brainstorm with your team to make a collective decision about the right priority and trade-offs. You make conscious effort to engage and communicate with the team and stakeholders about our decisions and create a sense of urgency in the team to deliver with the right mechanism in place. You will provide the engineering team with your input in design, development, testing, and operations for programs that own systems and services. You work closely with the team to set the forward-looking architectural vision that enables this team to deliver rapidly on behalf of our customers and can scale for millions of customers by expanding on additional devices and in locales without any customer impact. You will represent your team's progress in regular management status update meetings. You invest to develop the team to map their aspirations with our long term vision, coach and grow them.
A day in the life
You will lead a team that has tenured and relatively new engineers. You will work with product, stakeholders, partner teams, and program managers globally to identify the right opportunities that your team should focus on and build the next generation of the architecture to support PV’s growth in years to come. You will provide your input in design, development, testing, and go-to strategy for programs. You work closely with the team to drive the forward-looking architecture that enables your team to deliver rapidly on behalf of our customers and can scale for millions of customers by expanding on additional devices and in locales without any customer impact. You will represent your team's progress in regular management status update meetings. You will have the opportunity to work on long-term technical strategy and build a roadmap to deliver on it. You invest in people’s careers growth and balance work-life harmony.
About the team
The team is critical to PV and plays a vital role in ensuring systems and services scale and work so customers can easily subscribe to enjoy the content they love. You will play a crucial role in delivering the next generation of architecture while balancing the current need of the business that fuels PV’s growth. This is a very exciting time for the team to work on highly complex and ambiguous problems that will become a foundation for the next phase of our architecture that delivers value to customers with speed and agility while holding a high bar for availability and resiliency of signup and purchase experience. You will be a part of a wider Checkout organization with experienced leaders to help you learn and grow.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 in engineering.
- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
- Experience working directly within engineering teams.
- Experience managing engineers.
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
- 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.
Posted: January 16, 2025 (Updated about 2 hours ago)
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