Software Development Manager Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Are you passionate about open source? Do you want to make app development better for millions of native mobile developers? This is a unique opportunity to join us and lead an Amplify Framework engineering team. The Amplify Framework (https://aws-amplify.github.io/) was launched in November 2017 and has quickly gained popularity within the industry. Adoption and usage of the framework has also grown rapidly but it is still Day 1 for the team and for our product with an extensive set of new capabilities scheduled for delivery in 2019.

The Amplify Framework is a collection of open source libraries and tools that enable developers to create mobile and web apps on AWS. Amplify codifies best practices through programmatic interfaces to help developers effortlessly interact with AWS services. More info about our design principles can be found at: https://github.com/aws-amplify/aws-sdk-android and https://github.com/aws-amplify/aws-sdk-ios.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the Amplify Framework native library team. This team provides native libraries, tools and documentation for developers to build connected mobile applications using AWS. The engineering team is 100% focused on delivering open source software and our product is Apache licensed. All engineering work, progress tracking, and operations are managed on GitHub and other open source tools.

The right candidate for this role will be passionate about building open source software and must have a strong background in open source practices and operations. The ideal candidate will have experience working within the native development ecosystem.