Software Development Manager, Alexa Smart Properties

Want to join a startup team building new Alexa experiences for hospitality and other out of home segments Customers tell us they love the convenience of Alexa and smart home and we want to extend those experiences to shared living spaces such as rentals assisted living and more.

We are looking for a passionate hard-working and talented professional who has experience building innovative mission critical high volume applications that customers love. You will be a technical leader and have significant impact on the design architecture and implementation of services and experiences. We manage and create billing related software for Alexa Enterprise use cases.

The ideal candidate is passionate about Alexa and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. You take pragmatic and iterative approach to building software: you have an ability to simplify and get things done love experimentation and rapid iterations on the new concepts. You are focused thoughtful leader of your team who works effectively with external and internal partners. You are highly quantitative have great judgment and passion for building a great customer experience.



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Key job responsibilities
- Define the strategy and roadmap for the Alexa Enterprise Billing team
- Hire and develop the industrys best talent to build a strong and well-balanced team
- Work across the organization to deliver the best in-class Alexa experience for our customers while balancing critical business objectives
- Own and operate mission critical services that are highly reliable


- 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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