Amazon.com Services LLC

Technology

SoftwareDevelopmentManager,FTVXTeam(WholeWorld)

$166–288k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Software Development Manager, FTVX Team (Whole World) at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Machine Learning, AI, System design, Data processing. Lead team developing software for entity ingestion, curation,. Develop technical roadmap, strategy, customer experience”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver key initiatives impacting millions of customers; Develop breakthrough customer experiences; Drive best-in-class customer experience

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years engineering team management, 7+ years working directly within engineering teams, 3+ years designing or architecting systems, 8+ years leading definition and development of multi tier web services, Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Nice to Have

Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership, Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing Software Engineers

What You'll Do.

Lead team developing software for entity ingestion

Develop technical roadmap

Create buy-in for technical vision and strategy

Manage prioritization and trade-offs

Identify and resolve technical risks and issues

Encourage exploration and employment of state-of-the-art technologies

Collaborate with cross-functional team

Contribute towards shaping next-gen digital media catalog solution

and collaborate to prioritize features

Drive continuous improvements with team’s processes and practices

Participate in hiring process

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional team; Key external partners; Product managers; Other engineering teams

Communication Scope

Technical designs; Product strategy

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning, Prioritization, Trade-offs

Full Job Description

Software Development Manager for Fire TV Catalog will lead a team that build scaleable, low-latency systems to ingest, store, refine and deliver content for Fire TV Browse and Discovery experiences with special focus on leveraging Machine Learning and AI-based techniques to develop canonical metadata about digital media entities. Fire TV's core experience is highly engaging and innovative for VOD content today. Linear and live programming systems owned by this team make the foundation of Fire TV's new content-forward experience that brings together Live and on-demand entertainment. Fire TV is how millions of people watch, share, and enjoy TV every day. The systems that power this experience are undergoing a substantial revamp to extend this content-forward experience to linear programming, live events and sports. Linear programming continues to be a very large and active form of content streaming and engagement by customers worldwide, even with the acceleration of cord-cutting. Live Sports accounted of 72 of the top-100 most watched broadcasts in the US in 2024. Future Fire TV experience will blur the boundaries between linear and VOD, live and on-demand, with entity linking playing a critical role. SDM for the Catalog Linear services will own full development cycle of scalable, low-latency systems that process data at scale, derive insights, apply breakthrough in machine learning, and sculpt bespoke partner data presentations into a uniform and rich digital media catalog. Your customers will be both third-party linear and sports data providers as well as Fire TV end users. You will be responsible for guiding and contributing to design discussions, helping best ideas break through and surface to the top, mentor engineers on the team, and take on cross-team and high-impact problems. You will help set the team and org goals for the year, and develop mechanisms to execute as a cohesive, high-performance team. You will be expected to promote Day 1 culture, lead by examp

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