Software Development Manager, Prime Video Checkout

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Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

Are you passionate about building, managing and leading a team of engineers who are embarking on journey to build next generation of Checkout architecture to accelerate PV's growth in next 3-5 years. Your will be joining on exciting time to solve architecture challenges that is hard and motivating because it directly impacts PV's strategic growth pillars. Your team will be helping millions of customers around the world to subscribe to Prime, TV channels or purchase/rent movies and enjoy live sports.

If so, this is the role for you! Prime Video's Checkout team is looking for a manager to lead a team of engineers who will be working on next generation architecture that supports customers who want subscribe for Prime, TV Channels, Live sports or to Rent/Buy the hottest movies and TV shows from yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Key job responsibilities
As an engineering manager, you lead a team of smart engineering, based in London UK and invest in their growth. You work with team, stakeholders and product to refine mechanism to effectively collaborate, make faster decisions and deliver on time. You act as a owner to your services and team to deliver for customers and make decisions in the best interest of customers. Collaboration is key to be successful in this role as we have many stakeholders and own a critical customer experience for Prime Video.

You will work with product, Customer Service, UX team, program managers and key stakeholders globally to identify the right opportunities that your team should focus on. You collect input from multiple sources including products, stakeholders, customer support and brain storm with your team to make a collective decision about the right priority and trade-offs. You make conscious effort to engage and communicate with the team and stakeholders about our decision and create a sense of urgency in the team to deliver with the right mechanism in place. You will provide the engineering team your input in design, development, testing and operations for program that owns systems and services. You work closely with the team to set the forward looking architectural vision that enables this team to deliver rapidly on behalf of our customers and can scale for millions of customers by expanding on additional devices and in locales without any customer impact. You will represent your team's progress in regular management status update meetings. You invest to develop team to map their aspirations with our long term vision, coach and grow them.

A day in the life
You will lead a team that has tenured and relatively new engineers. You will work with product, stakeholders, partner teams and program managers globally to identify the right opportunities that your team should focus on and build next generation of the architecture to support PV's growth in years to come. You collect input from multiple sources including products, stakeholders, customer support and brainstorm with your team to make a collective decision about the right priority and trade-offs. You will provide your input in design, development, testing and go to strategy for programs. You work closely with the team to drive the forward looking architectural that enables your team to deliver rapidly on behalf of our customers and can scale for millions of customers by expanding on additional devices and in locales without any customer impact. You will represent your team's progress in regular management status update meetings. You will have opportunity to work on long-term technical strategy and build roadmap to deliver on it. You invest in people career's growth and balance work-life harmony.

About the team
The team is critical to PV and play a critical role to ensure systems and services scale and work so customers can easily subscribe to enjoy the content they love. You will play a critical role to deliver next generation of architecture while balancing the current need of the business that fuel the PV's growth. This is a very exciting time for the team to work on highly complex and ambiguous problem that will become a foundation to next phase of our architecture that deliver value to customers with speed and agility while holding a high bar for availability and resiliency of signup and purchase experience. You will be a part of wider Checkout organisation with experienced leaders to help you to learn and grow.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 in engineering
- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
- Experience working directly within engineering teams
- Experience managing engineers
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

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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