Job Description
7+ years of engineering experience
3+ years of engineering team management 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
Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award-winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO, and live events like Thursday Night Football. Our architecture operates at Amazon-scale and raises the bar for playback reliability, video start time, and image quality. Prime Video runs on thousands of device types in over 200 territories worldwide. The Prime Video International expansion team serves as the voice of our international customers, advocates on behalf of those customers, and delivers capabilities that allow us to acquire, engage, and retain more of them. Our mission is to ensure every internet-connected customer in the world can enjoy Prime Video. We accomplish this by continuously increasing the number of global customers for Transactional Video On Demand (TVOD) Offering Our architecture serves billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, IoT, and CloudFront. Key job responsibilities As a Manager, Software Development on the Prime Video International team, you will oversee the design and implementation of significant technical projects by both achieving results through SDE's and QAE's. You will help influence the team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach, set the standard for engineering excellence, take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous technical problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams and collaborate and influence other teams throughout the greater Prime Video organization. To achieve results through others, you will demonstrate technical influence over the different individual teams, either via a collaborative software effort or by increasing their productivity and effectiveness by driving software engineering best practices. You'll also lead design reviews for the org, actively participate in design reviews across Prime Video, provide insightful code reviews and actively mentor other engineers. · Manage 1–2 teams of high calibre Software Engineers working on building, scaling world-class, distributed systems · Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach SDEs and QAEs at different levels of experience · Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment · Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process and development discussions · Own all operational metrics and support for your teams' software · Drive improvements in software engineering practices across engineering teams About the team We are responsible for all tech work streams required to launch a transactional video category (Channels or TVOD) in a new country, new offer types and business migration across the entities.
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
3+ years of engineering team management 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
Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award-winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO, and live events like Thursday Night Football. Our architecture operates at Amazon-scale and raises the bar for playback reliability, video start time, and image quality. Prime Video runs on thousands of device types in over 200 territories worldwide. The Prime Video International expansion team serves as the voice of our international customers, advocates on behalf of those customers, and delivers capabilities that allow us to acquire, engage, and retain more of them. Our mission is to ensure every internet-connected customer in the world can enjoy Prime Video. We accomplish this by continuously increasing the number of global customers for Transactional Video On Demand (TVOD) Offering Our architecture serves billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, IoT, and CloudFront. Key job responsibilities As a Manager, Software Development on the Prime Video International team, you will oversee the design and implementation of significant technical projects by both achieving results through SDE's and QAE's. You will help influence the team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach, set the standard for engineering excellence, take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous technical problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams and collaborate and influence other teams throughout the greater Prime Video organization. To achieve results through others, you will demonstrate technical influence over the different individual teams, either via a collaborative software effort or by increasing their productivity and effectiveness by driving software engineering best practices. You'll also lead design reviews for the org, actively participate in design reviews across Prime Video, provide insightful code reviews and actively mentor other engineers. · Manage 1–2 teams of high calibre Software Engineers working on building, scaling world-class, distributed systems · Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach SDEs and QAEs at different levels of experience · Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment · Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process and development discussions · Own all operational metrics and support for your teams' software · Drive improvements in software engineering practices across engineering teams About the team We are responsible for all tech work streams required to launch a transactional video category (Channels or TVOD) in a new country, new offer types and business migration across the entities.
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
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Manager| Software Development| Prime Video MarketPlace Expansion Team position is now open for candidates interested in the Software Developer Jobs sector. This role in Bengaluru offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.