Software Development Manager - Alexa Mobile, Alexa Mobile Assistant

Are you passionate about developing new Alexa experiences on Mobile phones Tablets and Accessories

Alexa AI experiences are finally becoming a reality and Amazons Alexa cloud service and Mobile apps are at the forefront of this latest technology wave. Come join our team and help us bring to life the next generation of mobile Alexa to our customers. Were looking for entrepreneurs who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers demonstrate a high degree of product ownership and want to have fun while they make history.

As a Manager of Software Development you will be responsible for leading an organization of engineers in define design development test deployment and operation of large scale distributed systems targeted at increasing the rate of innovation around driving Alexa engagement and feature adoption. A successful candidate will have an established background in driving clarity in highly ambiguous technical environments developing long-term technical roadmaps a strong technical ability to guide and coach excellent project management skills great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be responsible for building maintaining and organizing your teams defining the technical strategy and product road map for your organization as well as defining measuring and reporting on your organizations key performance metrics.

Key job responsibilities
Creating reliable scalable and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems are a must have and customer focus. This person has thrived and succeeded in fast paced environment where learning new concepts quickly is a must. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software is customer-centric and feels strongly not only about building good software but about making that software achieve its goals in operational reality.


About the team
We operate as an autonomous and self organizing team. We advocate for our customers first in every aspect of our work and make time to know and understand our customers. We make customer privacy and trust a primary concern in every decision. We build towards the right long term solution and seek to eliminate tech debt. We seek to continuously improve and will take action every sprint to improve. As a team we embrace our diversity and foster an inclusive environment where we can all grow together.

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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 building customer and developer facing products and services

- 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.