Alexa is the personal assistant and cloud service that powers the next generation of ambient computing devices, designed around your voice. We believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with technology across many domains. At Alexa Communications, we are inventing the future of global, multimedia communications.
It’s still Day One for the Alexa Communications team – we have a lot to innovate and build to make communication through Alexa devices a magical experience. You can send a message, make a call, play announcements, or drop in on your closest friends & family via Alexa devices or the Alexa app! The Alexa communications team is working to become the most natural way for people to communicate. We're a high energy, fast growth business excited to define the future of voice-controlled communications, make Alexa even more useful, and delight customers around the world.
As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for building and managing a team to work on the Communications Software Features we are developing on our devices. In this role, you will work closely with the Alexa Communications Organization to deliver and innovate on the features for current and next generation of devices. Your role will also require managing and building a strong team who will take on this challenge. Your team must deliver very high quality and robust communications software while focusing extensively on continually improving the customer experience of our solutions.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Mentoring and developing software engineers at different experience levels.
- 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 tradeoffs and partner with Engineering teams for end-to-end solutions for the best customer experience.
- Participate in periodic product strategy sessions and planning team roadmap and strategy.
- Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.
Minimum Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
- 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 live site operations.
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
- 6+ years of leading system software/OS/App Framework/devices platform experience.
