Software Development Manager, Amazon Music

DESCRIPTION
Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.

The Amazon Music User Primitives team is looking for a passionate, innovative, and results-oriented Software Development Manager to help us reimagine the user primitives and experiences for customers, unlocking new features and empowering customers to share their music with friends. As a Software Development Manager on the Amazon Music User Primitives team, you will be responsible for systems that power the library, playlist and queue experience for millions of customers. You will work with a team of high-caliber engineers to create new scalable systems to manage the diverse set of customer features. Through experimentation, you and your team will solve for an optimally engaging music experience by delivering content seamlessly and help customers interact with their playlists in easy and intuitive ways. We use off the shelf AWS products such as EC2, ECS Lambda, EventBridge, S3, DynamoDB and CloudWatch.

Come innovate with the Amazon Music team!

Key job responsibilities
Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, providing guidance, support, and coaching to help them grow both personally and professionally.
Roadmap Management: Plan, coordinate, and prioritize software development projects to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions. Track project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies as needed.
Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, quality assurance, and design to define requirements, review designs, and ensure alignment on project goals.
Technical Expertise: Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team, including architecture design reviews, and resolving technical challenges.
Process Improvement: Continuously improve team processes and practices to increase efficiency, quality, and productivity.
Stakeholder Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.

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
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
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
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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site. Read more