Manager, Software Development - Digital and Mobile Products

Manager, Software Development - Digital and Mobile Products

Amazon's Digital Products team develops innovative new products and services like the Kindle. Kindle is a revolutionary reading device, the #1 best-selling product on all of Amazon, and one of the most innovative and fast growing businesses at Amazon. Amazon has also developed significant digital and mobile businesses include Amazon MP3, Amazon Instant Video, IMDb, Amazon Mobile store, and Audible. Many of these applications run on a range of mobile platforms including iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone and WebOS

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products on mobile platforms. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be helping to hire and build your team and systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle of a key product sub-system
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
• Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
• If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

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• 5-10+ years experience building production software systems
• Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field)
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or PERL
• Development experience on mobile platforms such as Google Android, WebOS, Windows Phone, Apple iOS and RIM Blackberry.

• The ability to take raw product requirements and develop software architectures and designs to bring them to life.
• Experience working with networking or communications devices in an embedded environment
• Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience developing software foundations and environments for application development
• Able to work closely with other developers to understand their needs and issues and to develop cooperative solutions.

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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.