Software Development Manager, Prime Video Sports, Linear and News

Love sports? Want to change the world? Prime Video is re-inventing the live sports experience by merging high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved sports properties - including the NFL, NBA, English Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, Rolland-Garros (French Open), the US Open and more. Every day we face the challenges of a fast-paced market and expanding technology set. And we're building at a scale only Amazon is capable of. The Prime Video Sports team is a single-threaded-owner, uniquely positioned to execute our vision across the entire PV stack to deliver the most compelling new experiences to our customers. If this sounds like the type of experience you'd like to help build - apply here and let's chat!
Who we are:
We are deeply connected with the idea that live sports events are fundamentally different: there is only one shot at delivering the moment until it is forever lost. Our mission is to make sure that our customers never miss a single moment of the sports they love. To do this we need to deliver best-in-class live sports infrastructure, testing, monitoring, and operations to optimize the delivery of live sports experiences at scale. Our team engineers for speed, quality, availability, and scale. As Prime Video has grown, we've increased the depth and breadth of video products we support, with a corresponding increase in the associated size and complexity of our engineering activity and the load on our services. Our goal is to adapt our architecture to maintain and improve our velocity of delivery for customers in the face of these changes, and for our services to be on and error-free 24/7, especially for high-profile, exclusive content. With AI as a transformative force, we're at an inflection point that enables us to unlock new opportunities in predictive analytics, automated defect analysis and mitigation, and automated operations that were previously beyond our reach.
What we're looking for:
We are looking for a highly talented Software Development Manager to help build fast, scalable, robust systems to crystalize and execute this vision. The successful candidate is expected to be a hands-on technical manager who understands and sets a high bar for all phases of the software development life-cycle, while hiring, coaching, developing and growing a team of engineers. We seek someone with an insatiable curiosity and appetite for learning, who can build and nurture an AI-native engineering team capable of leveraging emerging AI technologies in our solutions. Your ability to foster a culture of innovation and adaptability will be key as we integrate AI throughout our engineering practices.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage a team of software engineers, including their projects, performance, and career growth
- Communicate project roadmaps with your team, management, and principal stakeholders
- Work with peer managers to scope and estimate development effort
- Facilitate systems design, architecture, and scaling discussions
- Advocate for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy
- Deliver innovative customer experience for world-wide customers
- Hire and mentor highly talented engineers
A day in the life
- Innovate on behalf of customer
- Interact with leaders from product and/or other partner tech teams for conceptualizing, scoping and/or planning delivery.
- Manage project planning, task break-down, delivery and track status with your team
- Communicate delivery status to stakeholders
- Contribute to the vision, goals, and technical strategy in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities.
- Mentor engineers, provide leadership on complex technical issues, design trade-offs, and feature and schedule prioritization.
About the team
- We are a team who value diversity, respect, and inclusiveness. We love mentoring and helping each other grow.
- Our technology choices and designs are driven from the engineers, not handed down from above.
- We have a lot of say for what goes into our product. We get to pitch our ideas up the chain, not the other way around.
- 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
- 8+ 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
- 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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