Software Development Manager, Alexa Audio

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · CA, BC +1 · Software Development

Software Development Manager for Alexa Audio, focusing on delivering global audio experiences (music, podcasts, radio, audiobooks) across Alexa devices. The role involves leading a technology team, setting technical vision, building and managing software engineers, and driving engineering and operational excellence. It emphasizes working with partners and leveraging Generative AI and LLM capabilities to create customer-facing experiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be responsible for the end to end ownership of a technology team, including setting the technical vision for developing our systems to serve Alexa's needs.
  2. Build and manage great software engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining software.
  3. Be an advocate of engineering and operational excellence.
  4. Establish a consistent, project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations.
  5. Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision.

Skills

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

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • high ambiguity
  • complexity
  • broad scope