Software Development Manager, Amazon Key

Rings mission is to make neighborhoods safer. With affordable solutions that work on any home Ring is committed to offering smart security thats accessible to everyone. Now Ring is part of the Amazon Devices family and is seeking a technical leader who will help us create the next generation of home security. What will you help us create
You will be part of a global organization and a team that makes decisions on how technical solutions are delivered working in a cross-functional way with internal teams to drive key aspects of product definition execution testing and operation. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make an impact on our customer experience across the world.


Key job responsibilities
The role:
As a Software Development Manager you will be part of global organization responsible for leading a team of software developers working on large-scale cloud services and apps that will be used by millions of Ring customers worldwide. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition vision design roadmap and development of core applications and services within the Ring engineering organization. This role will work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers (mobile front-end backend) product managers designers and marketers to design test learn and iterate on solutions in a fast-paced environment.
You will:
Be responsible for the overall systems development life cycle including the design development and maintenance of core services
Work closely with engineers product managers and designers to architect and develop new features and services from conception to launch
Manage the day-to-day activities of engineering teams within an Agile/Scrum environment
Work with team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
Report on status of development quality operations and system performance to technical and business stakeholders
Help to improve engineering processes and tools to increase team effectiveness
Work with extraordinary talent and have the opportunity to hire and shape the team to best execute on the product.
Mentor and coach software engineers in order to improve their skills and make them more effective software engineers.

A day in the life
This role provides a unique opportunity to be a key part in shaping the core of Rings offerings to our customers. You will work across teams to prototype ideas and solve complex problems and raise the bar of our applications & services by advocating and driving software best practices engineering excellence and operational readiness. You will have the opportunity to contribute your creative ideas and energy working with world-class experts distributed cloud systems and home security devices.

About the team
These teams use a diverse set of AWS technologies including: S3 DynamoDB SQS Kinesis API Gateway Cloudwatch Elastic Search Lambda Cloud Auth CodeBuild CodeDeploy CodePipeline along with Amazons standard Builder Hub Tools. Frontends are build using JavaScript and React. The team consists of a combination of backend full-stack and front end developers.

- 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

- 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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