Software Development Manager, Alexa Connectivity Devices

Amazon; Asti; In loco; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading tech company is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a team in developing multi-tier web services for Alexa. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in engineering and team management, ensuring high-quality software delivery. Strong collaboration skills and leadership experience are essential. This role offers a competitive environment focusing on customer-centric solutions.

Competenze

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 5+ years leading the development of multi-tier web services.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle practices.

Mansioni

• Set goals and develop the roadmap for service development.
• Lead a team of engineers and maintain operational excellence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define new requirements.
• Conduct sprint planning and daily scrum meetings.
• Coach and mentor team members.

Conoscenze

Engineering team management

Multi-tier web services development

Recruiting and mentoring software engineers

Experience with coding standards

Partnering with product management

Descrizione del lavoro

Software Development Manager, Alexa Connectivity Devices

Job ID: 3033093 | Amazon Development Centre (India) Private Limited

Do you want to shape the future of how Alexa-enabled devices and the Alexa Cloud function? Do you want to set up, lead, grow, and be part of a team that builds services used by millions of customers? If you said yes to any or all of those, come join the Alexa Connected Devices! The team builds best-in-class tier-1 services that enable connectivity between Alexa-enabled devices and the Alexa Cloud.

We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the development of tier-1 services for the Alexa Cloud.

Responsibilities

• You will set goals, define, develop and realize the roadmap, identify resource requirements and hire against it, develop the careers of engineers, deliver high-quality software that exceeds customer expectations, write docs to communicate vision, project status and operational reviews, and maintaining operational excellence of the system you own.
• You will be a member of the leadership team and the technical leader responsible for service development and operations.
• You will collaborate with stakeholders from Alexa devices and several Alexa Cloud teams to define roadmaps, plan for new requirements, make prioritization trade-offs, and track dependencies.
• You will brainstorm new ideas with principal engineers to address requirements, solve problems, and scale services.
• Conduct sprint planning and daily scrum meetings to track deliverables.
• Review operational and ticket dashboards to identify and prioritize customer issue resolutions.
• Coach and mentor team members, plan their careers, and participate in hiring new team members.
• Author documents to communicate vision and project updates.

About the team

The mission of the Alexa Connected Devices team is to deliver low-latency, low-cost, highly reliable, and highly scalable connectivity between Alexa-enabled devices and the Alexa Cloud. The changes we implement aim to improve the speed and reliability experienced by end customers when interacting with Alexa devices, and to simplify the experience for developers and the rest of the Alexa ecosystem by abstracting the connection management from them. The team handles tens of billions of transactions per day. This role is highly visible, involving participation in the inception phase, development of new features, and operation of a tier-1 Cloud Services. The ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunities that Alexa and the Cloud represent and is passionate about delivering high-quality services in a hyper-growth environment.

Basic qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 5+ 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 recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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 with the scrum methodology

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