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• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 8+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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 working directly within engineering teams
• Experience managing engineers
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience in engineering
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

In the Amazon Fire TV team, we are creating the most engaging entertainment platform for the whole family, worldwide. Be part of a fast-paced, agile and innovative team who is delivering new experiences to Fire TV devices in a startup like environment.

We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Development Manager with experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on cutting edge products used every day, by people you know. This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience.

In this role, you will help develop and drive the Fire TV roadmap and product vision and you will have a high degree of ownership in critical features and user experiences. The role is inherently cross-functional -- you will work closely with software engineering, device launch, customer service, and executive stakeholders. A successful candidate should be able to manage the tactical tasks of delivering products while simultaneously defining and driving strategic product planning for forward looking initiatives.

Job responsibilities

• Help develop technical roadmap, strategy, customer experience and roadmap for FireTV product initiatives
• Facilitate the technical architecture between multiple complex systems.
• Create buy-in for the technical vision and strategy both internally and with key external partners
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, schedule, performance and cost
• Proactively identify and resolve technical risks and issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic or technical goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to deliver the best product for our customers
• Experience managing high performance team and a track record hiring and building a team

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

• 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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