Software Development Manager, Visual Immersive eXperiences (VIX)

Overview

Software Development Manager, Visual Immersive eXperiences (VIX)

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.

The Visual Immersive eXperiences (VIX) team is committed to transforming AM into a lean-forward, engaging and immersive audio experience for our customers. This team specifically tackles the hard challenge of meeting the needs of audio entertainment customers while building engaging visual experiences that is simple, coherent and immersive. We strive to increase engagement, create differentiation as well as bring alive a sense of Community, enable Discovery & ignite Fandom for our customers. Importantly, we care deeply about building retentive experiences that directly contribute to our business while delighting customers.

This team operates in a fast-paced, innovative and highly ambiguous environment. A successful manager will be able to anticipate requirements, surface innovative solutions, strives to improve the overall development efficiency and retaining highly talented engineers.

You will work closely with product, design & technical teams in India and USA to create and enhance the application and to support high quality releases. You will lead a talented and nimble team of development and QA engineers. You are a strong and flexible leader who can prioritize well, know how to deal with ambiguity, changes in scope, have excellent communication skills, and have a track record for delivering results.

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

• Demonstrates excellent judgment
• Passionate about engineering efficiency, agile processes and always seeks to do more with less
• Mentors and leads people by example
• Passionately insists on high standards and soundly biases for action
• Dives deep and is not out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
• Requires innovation of your team
• Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
• Results oriented
• Thinks Big

Technical background:

• GraphQL/REST, AWS
• Cutting edge mobile development - ReactNative, Kotlin, Java, Swift

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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