Software Development Manager, Amazon
Amazon Music Discovery & Culture
$166.4-287.7k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$166.4-287.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 3+ 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
Desirable
- 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
- Experience building web applications with React and modern web technologies
- Experience with GraphQL/REST, AWS
- Experience with cutting edge mobile development - ReactNative, Kotlin, Java, Swift
What the job involves
- The Amazon Music Discovery & Culture team is looking for a Software Development Manager to drive Discovery & Culture to the next level for the Amazon Music Customers
- Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement
- Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience for our customers on the Amazon Music iOS/Android App
- We help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians
- We build high performance, scalable and distributed systems and services to power our experiences
- Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives
- You will lead the development of features that drive engagement and revenue to one of the top global music listening services by developing features and experiences on the Amazon Music Mobile app
- You love challenging problems, collaborating with stakeholder teams, defining roadmaps, design creative technical solutions, and mentoring more junior engineers
- We support a culture of innovation through experimentation and directly partner with Product and Marketing to build successful solutions for our business that our customers love
- We have high technical standards and expect you to lead the team to reach new levels with respect to engineering excellence
- You will set the standard for engineering, testing, and operational excellence, drive best practices across organization
Application process
- Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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