Sr. Software Development Manager, Fire TV Business and Devices Advertising (FBDA)

- 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 managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Do you want to re-invent how 10s of millions of people enjoy shows and movies on their TVs and Tablets?

EDS (Entertainment Devices and Services) includes Amazon Fire TV, the #1 streaming media player with over 70MM monthly active users, and Fire Tablet. Fire TV Business and Devices Advertising (FBDA) mission is to make watching content they love effortless and fun for customers to enjoy all of their entertainment so it becomes part of their daily habit for relaxing, being entertained, and spending time with family and friends.

The FBDA team combines advertising and mobile technologies, smart TVs and Alexa to help our customers discover and engage with content and help Amazon lower prices. We operate at Amazon scale, designing and deploying software that is enjoyed by over 70MM active users globally. We solve significant customer problems in the consumer electronics space through devices, mobile applications, computer vision, and machine learning.

As the engineering team leader, you’ll work closely with engineering staff and a team of experts to design and execute your team’s feature roadmap. You will have direct input into requirement definition, and will work closely with our customers, developers and product managers to define, develop and deliver new products and features. The ideal candidate is equally obsessed with delivering the best possible customer experiences and leading and building strong teams. They define software architecture, communicating effectively with engineers, partners, leaders and a broad set of stakeholders. This leader can think long-term, advocate for strong engineering excellence, and bring in their own software development best practices as well as follow best practices from the broader development community in Amazon.

The ideal candidate has a passion for TV and video entertainment and/or advertising combined with an established track record delivering break-out consumer software experiences.

Key job responsibilities:
· Work with product management and cross functional teams to build and ship technical solutions for desired user experiences
· Hire and develop an highly effective engineering organization to deliver on the long term business and product vision.
· Provide hands on technical leadership to the team, design reviews, and prioritization
· Implement process improvements for both your own and surrounding teams
· Advise senior and executive management
· Define detailed technical requirements from high level product requirements and enable your team to do the same
· Collaborate with and influence various internal and external teams to deliver technical infrastructure relevant to the projects owned by your team
· Drive and facilitate innovation within the team
· Manage team priorities, headcount projections, recruiting and continuous performance evaluations
· Monitor, drive and facilitate growth of your team’s individual contributors
· Ownership of the overall systems development life cycle
· Execution against project plans and timely delivery of committed results
· Ownership of all operational metrics and support for your team’s software