Amazon · 1 day ago
Software Development Manager, Prime Video Sports Availability
Seattle, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $288K/yr
7+ years expAmazon is re-inventing the live sports experience through Prime Video by merging high-quality live streaming and interactive features. They are seeking a Software Development Manager to build scalable systems and lead a team of engineers to optimize the delivery of live sports experiences.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Manage a team of software engineers, including their projects, performance, and career growth
Communicate project roadmaps with your team, management, and principal stakeholders
Work with peer managers to scope and estimate development effort
Facilitate systems design, architecture, and scaling discussions
Advocate for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy
Deliver innovative customer experience for world-wide customers
Hire and mentor highly talented engineers
Interact with leaders from product and/or other partner tech teams for conceptualizing, scoping and/or planning delivery
Manage project planning, task break-down, delivery and track status with your team
Communicate delivery status to stakeholders
Contribute to the vision, goals, and technical strategy in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities
Mentor engineers, provide leadership on complex technical issues, design trade-offs, and feature and schedule prioritization
Innovate on behalf of customer
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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