Software Development Manager - FireTV/Tablet Advertising , Fire TV Business Development and Device Advertisement

Do you want to reinvent how 10s of millions of people enjoy shows and movies on their TVs and Tablets

FAME (Fire TV Advertising Monetization Engagement) includes Amazon Fire TV the #1 streaming media player with over 50MM monthly active users and Fire Tablet. Our FAME Advertising mission is to make watching content they love effortless and fun for customers to enjoy all of their entertainment so it becomes part of their daily habit for relaxing being entertained and spending time with family and friends.

The FAME team combines advertising and mobile technologies smart TVs and Alexa to help our customers discover and engage with content and help Amazon lower prices. We operate at Amazon scale designing and deploying software that is enjoyed by over 50MM active users globally. We solve significant customer problems in the consumer electronics space through devices mobile applications computer vision and machine learning.

As the engineering team leader youll work closely with local engineering staff and a team of experts to design and execute your teams feature roadmap. You will have direct input into requirement definition and will work closely with our customers developers and product managers to define develop and deliver new products and features. The ideal candidate is equally obsessed with delivering the best possible customer experiences and leading and building strong teams. They define software architecture communicating effectively with engineers partners leaders and a broad set of stakeholders. This leader can think longterm advocate for strong engineering excellence and bring in their own software development best practices as well as follow best practices from the broader development community in Amazon.

The ideal candidate has a passion for TV and video entertainment and/or advertising combined with an established track record delivering breakout consumer software experiences.



Key job responsibilities

Work with product management and cross functional teams to build and ship technical solutions for desired user experiences
Provide hands on technical leadership to the team design reviews and prioritization
Implement process improvements for both your own and surrounding teams
Advise senior and executive management
Define detailed technical requirements from high level product requirements and enable your team to do the same
Collaborate with and influence various internal and external teams to deliver technical infrastructure relevant to the projects owned by your team
Drive and facilitate innovation within the team
Manage team priorities headcount projections recruiting and continuous performance evaluations
Monitor drive and facilitate individual growth of your teams individual contributors
Ownership of the overall systems development life cycle
Execution against project plans and timely delivery of committed results
Ownership of all operational metrics and support for your teams software

About the team
The FAME (Fire TV Advertising Monetization Engagement) team combines advertising and mobile technologies smart TVs and Alexa to help our customers discover and engage with content and help Amazon to lower the prices. We operate at Amazon scale designing and deploying software that is enjoyed by over 65MM active users globally. We solve significant customer problems in the consumer electronics space through devices mobile applications and machine learning.

3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of engineering 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

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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