Senior Manager, Software Development – Alexa Spoken Word at Amazon
Senior Manager, Software Development – Alexa Spoken Word Details
Dec. 12, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
Software Development
Alexa Entertainment
Seattle, Washington
Podcasts, Audiobooks, and
Want to transform the way people enjoy Podcasts, Audiobooks, and other Spoken Word content? Come join the team that made Prime Music, Spotify, Pandora, Audible books, Kindle books, Alexa on Fire TV and more available to Alexa customers. We are innovating on and changing the way our customers interact with media services and devices! As a Sr. Software Development Manager for the Spoken Word domain within Alexa Entertainment, you will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products that will be used every day by people you know. Spoken Word is a relatively new domain for Alexa, which offers a unique opportunity to build brand new voice experiences from the ground up. In this role, you will be responsible for leading teams of engineers in design, development, testing, and deployment of a range of products on voice, desktop, mobile platforms, and core backend capabilities. A successful candidate will have an established
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline · 8+ years experience managing software development teams, ideally with some hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience · 8+ years of OO software development experience in Java, C#, or another OO-based language (preferably multiple)· Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline · Experience building and operating extremely high volume and highly scalable web services · Experience building and operating highly available, 24x7 services · Experience leading through others and especially other software leaders