Software Development Manager, Alexa Communications

Alexa is the personal assistant and cloud service that powers the next generation of ambient computing devices, devices designed around your voice. We believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with technology across many domains. At Alexa Communications, we are inventing the future of global, multimedia communications.

It s still Day One for the Alexa Communications team - we have a lot to innovate and build to make communication through Alexa devices a magical experience. And now you can send a message, make a call, play announcements, or drop in on your closest friends & family via Alexa devices or the Alexa app! The Alexa communications team is working to become the most natural way for people to communicate, and the challenge ahead is significant. Were a high energy, fast growth business excited to have the opportunity to define the future of voice-controlled communications, make Alexa even more useful, and delight customers around the world. You ll be leading a team building LLM powered distributed systems to enable world class, highly scalable, and user friendly systems as we aspire to connect people together through Alexa!

Key job responsibilities
As a key leader of the engineering team, you will have influence on our product and technology strategy by helping define the product features, refine system architecture, and spearhead engineering best practices that enable a quality product.

You will be successfully leading the architecture foundation for the next phase of the product and beyond. A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating a reliable, scalable, and high-performance service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.

You should enjoy working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.
- 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