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Description

The Device Demo Engineering team builds apps and cloud services that enable Amazon to remotely manage devices in retail environments and effectively demonstrate the device features to customers in physical retail spaces.

As the Software Development Manager (SDM), you will lead the engineering team that will build device apps (that run on all Amazon Devices), mobile apps and cloud services. You will be the Single Threaded Owner (STO) and will own goal setting and engineering roadmap for the team. You will partner with product marketing and device product management to define customer experience on our devices that will showcase our devices in physical retail stores. You will be responsible for hiring and career development of software engineers and quality assurance engineers. You will set the technical direction for the team to build highly performant, scalable and extensible software apps and services.

You will establish a team culture that focusses on engineering and operational excellence. You will set and shepherd the Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules. As a technical leader, you will also establish architectural principles, have inputs into selecting design patterns and mentoring team members on their appropriate application.

Lastly, we’re looking for customer experience-minded entrepreneurs who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of technical product ownership, and want to have fun while making history. It is still Day 1 in the Devices business, and we need a creative problem-solver with exceptional judgment and the ability to deliver business results under ambiguous circumstances and tight timelines.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, IND | Bengaluru, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience

• 3+ years of engineering team management 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

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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