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Amazon Software Development Manager, FireTV in Chennai, TennesseeIndia
Description
The SDM for FTV Catalog Core Services and Operations Tooling team will be the sole owner for the last mile of FTV Catalog Publication system as well will define the technical roadmap for Operations and Tooling.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our Catalog Tooling ecosystem. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers, to identify pain points and develop innovative solutions that streamline processes, enhance user experiences, and drive business growth.
You will launch new micro cloud services and ultra-high volume transaction API’s that have direct impact to customer experience, be a base for building variety of features for FireTV. You will raise the bar on current design, propose improvements, identify impact to dependent systems, and execute on the proposals successfully.
You will launch new micro cloud services and ultra-high volume transaction API’s that have direct impact to customer experience, be a base for building variety of features for FireTV. You will raise the bar on current design, propose improvements, identify impact to dependent systems, and execute on the proposals successfully.
Key job responsibilities
Help develop technical roadmap, strategy, customer experience and roadmap for FireTV product initiatives
Facilitate the technical architecture between multiple complex systems.
Create buy-in for the technical vision and strategy both internally and with key external partners
Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, schedule, performance and cost
Proactively identify and resolve technical risks and issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic or technical goals.
Collaborate with cross-functional team to deliver the best product for our customers
Experience managing high performance team and a track record hiring and building a team
About the team
Amazon FireTV products are revolutionary consumer devices that have become the #1 best-selling Amazon products. Under Amazon devices organization, FireTV Catalog and Operations team owns core Catalog services and tools to understand and manage catalog data that which is continually growing. This is based on cutting edge technologies such as Java, React, GraphQL, and AWS backend stack. The systems you build are the foundation for FireTV content forward experience and the operational business. It generates critical data to power FireTV's video catalog and discovery experiences. You will work with product and other technology teams to explore solutions to improve FireTV's key business metrics.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Chennai, TN, IND
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of engineering experience
3+ years of engineering team management 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Preferred Qualifications
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