Software Development Manager, Alexa Connect Kit, Alexa Smart Home

Lead the full-stack engineering for a rapidly growing and strategic business within the Alexa Smart Home organization. Your primary responsibility will be to connect the long-tail of devices to Alexa.

The Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) team provides managed services to device makers, helping them create high-quality, connected smart home devices quickly and easily. ACK combines managed hardware modules with SaaS to simplify IoT development for device makers.

In this role, youll lead the ACK Cloud team, collaborating across hardware, firmware, Cloud APIs, SDKs, apps, and operations to deliver every aspect of the product. As a Software Development Manager, youll partner with Product Managers, senior executives, engineers, Business Development, and customers to craft the technical vision and execution mechanisms for the team. Your goal will be to deliver solutions that simplify the manufacturing processes for IoT device makers.

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ 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