Amazon is hiring: Software Development Manager, Amazon Music Discovery & Culture

Software Development Manager, Amazon Music Discovery & Culture

Job ID: 2829154 | Amazon.com Services LLC

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, design 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. We have high technical standards and expect you to lead the team to reach new levels with respect to engineering excellence.

What's in it for you?

1. Team culture: You'll be joining a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people that loves working together towards a common goal.
2. Impact: Work on a service that will be used, directly and indirectly, by millions of customers and has a meaningful impact on their interactions with Amazon Music.
3. Gratification: You will know you are directly responsible for driving business impact and delighting customer experiences.
4. Ownership: You will quickly become responsible for key services, and drive what and how to build them.
5. Learn & Grow: You will have the opportunity to learn and grow with the challenges of designing and building a large-scale system integrating across a variety of services.
6. Innovate: We learn from our customers and invent every day on their behalf.
7. Make history: Amazon Music is reinventing the way we listen to music and engage with customers across the devices they use every day.
8. Have fun: Surround yourself with a highly talented pool of engineers that like to solve complex problems, but also work in a fun and autonomous environment.

Come innovate with the Amazon Music Discovery & Culture team!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services experience
• 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

PREFERRED 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 to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product 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

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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