Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.

Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for seasoned Software Development Manager to lead a team of brilliant engineers. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) for Retail Music Experience team, you would be managing a talented team of engineers building and scaling large scale systems allowing customers to discover and engage with Amazon Music on Amazon. You are expected to be a leader in technology, diving deep into problems you own, demonstrate excellent judgement in decision making, mentoring, and growing talent. You should be able to inspire people, motivate the team, drive the culture of innovation, implement engineering best practices, and deliver results. You will define technical and business strategy that generate a positive experience to customers who consume music from different interfaces such as Amazon Website, mobile Apps, Kindle, Fire TV and web clients. You should be an engineering leader in driving Operational Excellence by defining strategies, influencing roadmaps and raising the bar for our customers. As an engineering leader, you would be working directly with Music product management and various engineering leaders across Amazon to influence, design and deliver the organizational goals.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, 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

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