Software Development Manager, Prime Video Access

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited is seeking a Software Development Manager to own the engineering for subscription and video library management within Prime Video’s Access team in London. You will drive the long-term vision, guide the team roadmap, and collaborate with product, engineering, and business partners to deliver scalable solutions that delight customers.

You will lead sprint ceremonies, review operational metrics, and mentor engineers while maintaining a strong focus on

Qualifikationen

• Experience in leading engineering teams and managing roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of scalable, multi-tier web services and live-site operations.
• Ability to partner with product and program management to define features.
• Excellent communication with engineers, product stakeholders, and leadership.

Aufgaben

• Own long-term strategic vision and day-to-day roadmap for the team.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and business partners to deliver customer value.
• Lead sprint ceremonies, review metrics, and foster an inclusive team culture.

Kenntnisse

Engineering leadership

Team management

Multi-tier web services

Product & program management

Security & privacy

Jobbeschreibung

Description

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

The Access team is the owner of Prime Video's entitlement, ownership, and playability decisions. We power My Stuff, the Play Button, and entitlement indicators across every PV surface globally. We succeed when customers engage with existing benefits, measured by hours per customer and distinct streaming days. We are seeking a Software Development Manager to own the engineering for subscription and video library management. This job will challenge you on any fronts – you will solve technical challenges associated with scaling services, managing large data sets, and maintaining customer security and privacy. You will drive innovation and future solutions that will impact the systems that support customers access to the titles they love.

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for the long term, strategic vision for your team, the day-to-day management of your team's roadmap, and the growth and development of your direct reports. You will also work closely with product, engineering and business colleagues to ensure we are always delivering the right things for customers.

A day in the life

A typical day will involve attending your team's sprint ceremonies (standups, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings), reviewing operational metrics, one-on-ones with your directs and key stakeholders, and meetings to drive collaboration with partners and establish/deliver on your team's long term vision. You will also help to build an inclusive team culture.

Key stakeholders are engineers and managers in other Prime Video teams (notably the Prime Video Catalog org) and partners in product and business teams.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 in engineering team management
• Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
• Experience working directly within engineering teams
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 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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Company

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited

Job ID: A10425191