Software Development Manager, Alexa Enterprise Products

Alexa, find me a job where I can create and innovate. Yes, Alexa can make your wishes come true!

If youre looking for an opportunity to build an LLM based enterprise-grade, highly available, large scale, software solution, youve found perfect place? Does it excite you to find patterns and build generic, composable software solutions to solve complex problems? Are you looking for inventing newer and simpler ways of building solutions? If so, we are looking for you to fill a challenging position in Alexa Enterprise Products team.

Alexa Enterprise Products is looking for a passionate, highly skilled and inventive Software Development Manager, with strong technical and machine learning background to build and lead a new team from scratch. This team will build state-of-the-art ML experiences for Alexa Enterprise use-cases.

If you re passionate about greenfield engineering opportunities and love to solve problems that have never been encountered before - this is the job for you. If you have an insatiable thirst to learn - you ll absolutely love this job. Imagine working together with other teams to architect solutions that define how customers interact with Alexa. You ll own your work from design to deployment, evangelize it and ensure its operational excellence in production.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Define the strategy and roadmap for Alexa Built In team
- Hire and develop the industry s best talent to build a strong and well-balanced team
- Work across the organization to deliver the best in-class Alexa experience for our customers while balancing critical business objectives
- Build the next generation systems for enabling Alexa on devices portfolio to allow rapid innovation in the Voice Experience
- Build device and cloud side software that easily extends to meet the high growth of Amazons ABI business and capabilities
- Own and operate mission critical services that are highly reliable and extremely low latency


A day in the life
Basically you get to lead in a fast-paced environment, guiding a team of smart software engineers to architect and develop the right technical solutions to meet the needs of the business. You will be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle: defining, prioritizing, designing, building, and testing new features. We care about both delighting customers and high quality software; we don t sacrifice one for the other. We re looking for someone with a demonstrated track record of hiring and leading teams of software development engineers to build and run highly-scalable, global software solutions.


- 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