Sr. SW Development Manager, Device OS

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon. com, Inc. , originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, Lab126 has produced innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

The Device OS team plays a central role in creating these innovative devices at Lab126. The Device OS team is responsible for the board bring up, low level software, core operating system architecture, innovative framework feature development, associated cloud services and end-to-end system functions that brings these devices to life. The software built by the Device OS team runs on all Amazon consumer electronics devices. The Device OS team also is the center of excellence for developing Cross-OS Software stacks and solutions that helps enable partner teams including developers to drive software convergence and accelerate product development.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Manager, you will build and lead a diverse team of engineers to solve complex technical problems that will enable us launch innovative experiences/devices faster and delight our customers. In this position you will partner with an assorted set of stakeholders, primarily senior tech leaders in the devices business like FireTV, AppStore, Tablets, Echo, Smart Home to highlight our strategic initiatives in the Cross-OS Software solutions space and make them feel compelled to use our solutions in their products. You will influence the roadmap and technology decisions that will drive the adoption of our solutions. You will have a strong focus on keeping the operational excellence bar high while managing these solutions through defining key business metrics and auditing them regularly.

You will be expected to have a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, technical depth in end to end software stacks, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be a motivator and an experienced leader who can hire high-caliber engineers and collaborate across organizations, with the ability to influence senior leadership.

A day in the life
In this role, you will:
Work with Product Management & cross organizational teams to build, integrate and ship solutions at scale
Establish structures that enable your team to solve complex problems and build innovative solutions
Provide hands-on tech leadership to team
Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules
Manage team priorities, headcount projections, hiring , mentoring and continuous performance evaluation
Report on status of development, quality and operations to management
Advise senior and executive management - 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment