Sr. Software Development Manager, Alexa Connected Devices Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

The Alexa Connected Devices team builds device application APIs in the cloud for Alexa. Our device application APIs provide internal and third-party application developers building voice experiences, mobile applications, and multimodal devices with an API surface to discover, manage, control, or query any device connected to Amazon.

We're seeking a Sr. Software Development Manager to lead the development of highly-visible core systems to support all device application APIs. These systems are the underlying foundation to upcoming and future innovation.

Some info about this opportunity and our team:

* The changes we make directly impact the customer experience usage of all Alexa connected devices.
* This is a highly visible role, operating with many technical leaders and product managers across Alexa - with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
* You will drive project execution, recruit, hire, and develop the industry's top engineering talent.
* This is a great position for someone who likes backend development, Amazon Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architecture.
* We're looking for candidates that have acted as a technical leader and built high-performance, scalable and robust systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment.

The Sr. Software Development Manager will:

* Own development of their product end-to-end
* Provide technical direction
* Establish and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps for the business
* Continue to innovate on the framework to support state management of smart devices worldwide
* Manage multiple development teams focused on creating the complex back-end infrastructure
* Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping an extremely high bar for customer trust, performance, and availability

The ideal candidate has a track record of launching projects with Java/C#, C++, Perl, and distributed computing technologies on a Linux platform.