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Software Development Manager, Prime Video Title Promotions and Personalization

Job ID: 2955638 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

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

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career in Prime Video Tech takes you!

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 and new content promotions 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:

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 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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