Software Development Manager, Alexa International

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

Come join the team behind scaling Alexa Globally. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for leading the development of infrastructure helping to scale Alexa worldwide. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define the features, driving the system architecture, and spearheading best practices. Key job responsibilities - Lead engineering teams to translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design - Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality, on time - Own the software development process end-to-end, including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing, architecting, planning, implementing, and testing new systems and features; deploying, and operating the production services. A day in the life As an engineering leader of our team, you will lead a team with opportunities to shape our services and lead the charge as we play a major role in the evolution of Alexa+ worldwide. We are building and expanding the largest eval and validation platform for Alexa+, solving multilingual evaluation and validation challenges at scale. Our work spans multi-agent GenAI architecture — from synthetic data generation, distributed multimodal validation infrastructure, to autonomous validation using Gen AI for scaling multilingual architecture and scaling LLM-as-a-Judge infrastructure. Lead infrastructure and services development for Alexa+ global growth — partnering with product, program, and business stakeholders to shape strategy, define core services, and grow engineering teams. About the team The Alexa International team focuses on expanding Alexa’s capabilities on a global scale. We take on the unique challenge of understanding the nuances of how Alexa enabled devices can serve customers’ needs in different cultures and locations. If you are interested in shaping the future of Alexa for customers around the world, come and join our team. You will be joining a select group of people including other Engineers, Product Managers and TPMs in Alexa who are dedicated to making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon. Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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 in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams to translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality, on time
• Own the software development process end-to-end, including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing, architecting, planning, implementing, and testing new systems and features; deploying, and operating the production services.
• Lead infrastructure and services development for Alexa+ global growth — partnering with product, program, and business stakeholders to shape strategy, define core services, and grow engineering teams.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed