Nov 29, 2024

Software Development Manager III, Amazon Prime Video

Information Technology Management

Job Description

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

Prime Video Subscriptions Tech team's vision is to drive penetration & large-scale growth of PV paid subscribers within India by leveraging tech as a lever of change. The mission for PV Subscriptions team is to identify key product capabilities and innovations that would be required for Prime Video to succeed in a heterogeneous locale like IN where customers are mobile first, belongs to wide affordability spectrum, and have multi-lingual preferences for video consumption; and deliver these product capabilities to our customers in a way that not only meets the local market needs having capability to scale to other locales.

Our architecture serves billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, IoT, CloudFront & Java language.

Key job responsibilities

As a Manager, Software Development on the Prime Video Subscriptions team, you will oversee the design and implementation of significant technical projects by both achieving results through SDE's and QAE's. You will help influence the team's technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach, set the standard for engineering excellence, take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous technical problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team's software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams and collaborate and influence other teams throughout the greater Prime Video organization. To achieve results through others, you will demonstrate technical influence over the different individual teams, either via a collaborative software effort or by increasing their productivity and effectiveness by driving software engineering best practices. You'll also lead design reviews for the org, actively participate in design reviews across Prime Video, provide insightful code reviews and actively mentor other engineers.

• Manage 1-2 teams of high caliber Software Engineers working on building, scaling world-class, distributed systems

• Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach SDEs and QAEs at different levels of experience

• Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment

• Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process and development discussions

• Own all operational metrics and support for your teams' software

• Drive improvements in software engineering practices across engineering teams

About the team

We are responsible for all tech work streams required to manage Growth and Retention Charter for Prime Video.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of engineering experience

- 3+ years of engineering team management 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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