Software Development Manager, Amazon Music

Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on cutting-edge consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, and so much more.
Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.
Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.
Come innovate with the Amazon Music team!
Are you interested in working in a team that is changing the way Amazon customers enjoy music? You will lead a talented and nimble team of development engineers. You are a strong and flexible leader who can prioritize well, know how to properly deal with ambiguity, changes in scope, have excellent communication skills, and have a track record for delivering results.
Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
Demonstrates excellent judgment
Mentors and leads great people
Passionately insists on high standards (never satisfied with the status quo)
Is able to dive deep and is not out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
Requires innovation of your team
Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
Results oriented
Thinks Big
If you want a challenging L6 SDM job building new software to supporting mission critical functionality, then look no further!
Key job responsibilities
Own an independent charter in Catalog
Manage talented SDEs
Execute Impactful Projects
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- 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
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