Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring: Software Development Manager, Amazon Music Di

Software Development Manager - Amazon Music Discovery & Culture Team

The Amazon Music Discovery & Culture team is looking for a Software Development Manager to drive Discovery & Culture to the next level for the Amazon Music Customers.

Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience for our customers on the Amazon Music iOS/Android App. We help our customers discover up-and-coming artists while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build high-performance, scalable, and distributed systems and services to power our experiences.

You will lead the development of features that drive engagement and revenue to one of the top global music listening services by developing features and experiences on the Amazon Music Mobile app. You love challenging problems, collaborating with stakeholder teams, defining roadmaps, designing creative technical solutions, and mentoring more junior engineers. We support a culture of innovation through experimentation and directly partner with Product and Marketing to build successful solutions for our business that our customers love.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 3+ 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 livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Qualifications:

• 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
• Experience building web applications with React and modern web technologies
• Experience with GraphQL/REST, AWS
• Experience with cutting-edge mobile development - ReactNative, Kotlin, Java, Swift

What's in it for you?

• Team culture: Join a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people.
• Impact: Work on a service that will be used by millions of customers.
• Gratification: Be directly responsible for driving business impact and delighting customer experiences.
• Ownership: Quickly become responsible for key services and drive what and how to build them.
• Learn & Grow: Opportunity to learn and grow with the challenges of designing and building a large-scale system.
• Innovate: Learn from customers and invent every day on their behalf.
• Make history: Help shape the future of music engagement.
• Have fun: Solve complex problems in a fun and autonomous environment.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.