Software Development Manager, Fire TV Ambient and App Experiences

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

10d

About The Position

The Amazon Fire TV team is seeking a passionate, results-oriented Software
Development Manager to be part of the Ambient and App Experiences team. This
role offers the opportunity to transform how millions of customers experience
their televisions by reimagining what Fire TV does during idle
moments—converting a black rectangle into a beautiful, useful, and personalized
screen in the home. The Ambient team delivers curated art collections, family
photos, AI-generated art, ambient scenes, and proactive intelligence powered by
Alexa+, creating an all-day device experience that extends far beyond
traditional viewing.

As the Software Development Manager for this team, you will drive the technical
strategy and execution on Fire TV. This role requires a leader who can balance
innovation with execution, managing complex technical initiatives across device,
middleware, and cloud services while building and inspiring high-performing
engineering teams to deliver customer-obsessed experiences at scale.

You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazon’s
long-term vision, which includes rapid innovation in building better voice
interfaces to the media and entertainment content that Fire TV customers love!
We leverage technology in client-app frameworks, big data, machine learning,
optimization techniques and high availability services. Here on the Fire TV
team, we are dedicated to creating the most engaging entertainment platform for
the whole family, worldwide.

As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for hiring and
leading a team of engineers responsible for building high performing, fluid
applications that interact with large scale distributed systems. In this
position you will partner with product managers, project managers, and other
internal partners. A successful candidate will have an established background
with strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great
communication skills and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced
environment.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software
solutions and focus on improving performance. The leader we are looking for will
bring proven experience building, managing and mentoring engineering teams.

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
• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

• Work with partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions that delight customers
• Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules
• Manage departmental resources, staffing and mentoring and enhance and maintain a best-in-class engineering team.
• Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications
• Report on status of development, quality, operations and system performance to management

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

What This Job Offers

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