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Software Development Manager, Alexa Shopping On the Go

Amazon

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Job summary
The Alexa team in London is helping customers take Alexa with them on-the-go. We build the Alexa functionality in the Amazon App on iOS and Android, helping millions of customers find the products they need.

The team is seeking talented and experienced leader to design and develop the next generation shopping experiences. You’ll have the freedom and encouragement to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate on behalf of our customers.
As an engineering leader you will be responsible for leading a team of developers implementing back-end services and front end experiences in the Amazon app, solving highly ambiguous problems and interacting with fast moving ever changing set of technologies to deliver value to millions of customers around the world.

What you will work on: You will lead a team of talented and experienced engineers to define and implement components responsible for providing new and innovative mobile experiences for our customers. Your team will build and operate massively scalable services while also developing delightful app and web experiences. You will be working closely with product managers and engineering leaders from partner teams in Alexa Shopping organisation.

What we are looking for: We are looking for a talented Software Development Manager with a strong technical background, customer obsession and solid people management skills to manage and develop a highly-talented and experienced engineering team. As we are a rapidly expanding team, you will also be required to have solid hiring and new hire development skills. Strong judgment and communication skills, long-term technical vision, and continuous focus on engineering and operational excellence are essential for the success in this role.
Given that this is an early-stage initiative, you will play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and build quick prototypes or proofs of concept in partnership with other technology leaders within the team. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a lot, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people. #techleader

Key job responsibilities

  • People management, including regular one on ones, career growth planning, performance evaluation, hiring, and new hire onboarding.
  • Project management, including planning and communication.
  • Team operational management, including backlog prioritisation, operational dashboard reviews, sprint planning, and on-call management.
  • Contribution to business and technical strategic planning, including 3-year vision, annual roadmap planning, and working-backwards documents.
  • Technical guidance to the engineering team, including reviewing design documents and incident retrospectives.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience managing engineers
  • Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
  • Relevant engineering experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.. In lieu of degree, relevant skills and equivalent experience.
  • Able to demonstrate knowledge of algorithms, data-structures, efficiency, concurrency, performance optimization, object-oriented development and design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and strong problem solving skills.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Objective C, Swift, or Python.
  • Academic and/or industry experience with one of more of the following domains: machine learning, product graphs, mobile computing, or large-scale distributed systems.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • A Master’s Degree in Computer Science
  • A history of working in start-ups and fast paced environments handling multiple, competing priorities
  • A deep understanding of software development lifecycle, and a track record of shipping production quality software on time
  • Experience developing applications for Android and iOS.
  • Deep experience in web technologies and creating compelling mobile experiences using these technologies.
  • Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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