Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based voice service that powers the Echo Family of Devices. Just ask Alexa for weather, kitchen recipe, time and more. It’s still Day One for Alexa – we have a lot to innovate and build. We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us! We're a high energy, fast growth business excited to have the opportunity to define the future, make Alexa even more useful, and delight customers around the world.
We are seeking a Software (SDM) to join our team in Alexa to build and deliver a brand new in Alexa. This is a critical role to and deliver the in a complex space spanning global services, hundreds of devices, dozens of features, and both graphic and voice-based user interfaces.
The charter of the Alexa Calendar team is to help customers manage their schedule. As the SDM for the Alexa Calendar team you will own and drive a high performing engineering team that is building critical Calendaring features on Alexa. In addition to that you will participate in developing our strategy and vision, and you will work with other teams to develop and look after product roadmaps and features based on team strategy and vision. This role is inherently cross-functional -- you will work closely with other Alexa engineering teams, design, operations, finance and executive teams to bring features to market and develop and grow business opportunities for Amazon. A successful candidate will be a great people manager, who hires and develops the best, highly analytical, able to work extremely effectively in a matrix organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that customers love.
Key job responsibilities
· Manage high performing engineering team growing the careers of junior and senior SDEs
· Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance and operational support load
· Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
· Work closely with engineering teams and product owners to deliver products to market
· Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals- 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- 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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