Software Development Manager, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

Just finished Fallout and want to watch more of the same Looking for a movie thats like SaltBurn So are millions of our Prime Video customers. The Prime Video Groupings Re-engagement and Optimizations team suggests videos that are relevant to customers schedules and environments.

We tailor these recommendations through Personalization models that you can help shape. Along with delivering an AI-First personalization experience youll collaborate with a talented team of engineers and scientists to create models to run these predictions and services to provide the results at incredible scale and speed.

As a Prime Video technology leader youll have end-to-end ownership of the product user experience design and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. Youll get to work on projects that are fast-paced challenging and varied. Youll also be able to experiment with new possibilities take risks and collaborate with remarkable people.

Well look for you to bring your diverse perspectives ideas and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager you will manage a group of talented SDEs and work with them on the design implementation and delivery of large technology initiatives for Prime Video Personalization on the PV Homepage.

You will be responsible for leading initiatives managing roadmaps forward looking technical strategy and designing/building innovative software solutions for our customers. You will need to be an excellent leader and bridge across various parts of Tech Product and business.


A day in the life
A day in the life
- Craft a goal update for a key goal that goes up to our VP
- Attend an engineering standup and help unblock a key milestone
- Update the engineering roadmap with updates on the initiatives in flight in your team
- Work through a launch-blocker with some engineers
- Talk with Product managers about the requirements for an upcoming project
- Respond to some emails and work through the release strategy for an upcoming project

About the team
We are a team that is passionate about using Machine Learning and experiments to help make new titles launching on Prime Video into big hits and surfacing the right content to the right customer at the right time. We love experimentation and learning how we can improve the quality of our recommendations. As an SDM you will work across the team and the broader PV organization to deliver meaningful change.

We move fast seek impact and dont forget to have fun on the way. Come help shape this important business for Prime Video.

- 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
- 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 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 203400.00 - 275200.00 USD annually