Software Development Manager, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

Key job responsibilities

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

About the team

We are a team that is passionate about using Machine Learning and experiments to help make new titles launching on Prime Video into big hits, and surfacing the right content to the right customer at the right time. We love experimentation and learning how we can improve the quality of our recommendations. As an SDM, you will work across the team and the broader PV organization to deliver meaningful change.

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