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 Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, Lab126 has produced innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Amazon Echo Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
The Device OS team plays a central role in creating these innovative devices at Lab126. The Device OS team is responsible for the board bring up, low-level software, core operating system architecture, innovative framework feature development, associated cloud services, and end-to-end system functions that bring these devices to life. The software built by the Device OS team runs on all Amazon consumer electronics devices. The Device OS team is also the center of excellence for developing Cross-OS Software stacks and solutions that help enable partner teams, including developers, to drive software convergence and accelerate product development.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Manager, you will build and lead a diverse team of engineers to solve complex technical problems that will enable us to launch innovative experiences/devices faster and delight our customers. In this position, you will partner with an assorted set of stakeholders, primarily senior tech leaders in the devices business like FireTV, AppStore, Tablets, Echo, and Smart Home to highlight our strategic initiatives in the Cross-OS Software solutions space and make them feel compelled to use our solutions in their products. You will influence the roadmap and technology decisions that will drive the adoption of our solutions. You will have a strong focus on keeping the operational excellence bar high while managing these solutions through defining key business metrics and auditing them regularly.
You will be expected to have a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, technical depth in end-to-end software stacks, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You will be a motivator and an experienced leader who can hire high-caliber engineers and collaborate across organizations, with the ability to influence senior leadership.
A day in the life
In this role, you will:
1. Work with Product Management & cross-organizational teams to build, integrate, and ship solutions at scale.
2. Establish structures that enable your team to solve complex problems and build innovative solutions.
3. Provide hands-on tech leadership to the team.
4. Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
5. Manage team priorities, headcount projections, hiring, mentoring, and continuous performance evaluation.
6. Report on the status of development, quality, and operations to management.
7. Advise senior and executive management.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing, and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects, and development teams in an Agile environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
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