Software Development Manager, FireTV System Engineering
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Fire TV remains the #1 best-selling streaming media player in the U.S. As we continue to evolve our portfolio of products, we are looking to hire a manager for the System Engineering team. The team ensures our embedded platforms and new concepts deliver consistent and high performing experiences to customers. You'll participate in the full Fire TV Product Life cycle and play a critical role as Fire TV grows and scales. The work includes owning a roadmap of improvements, optimizations and new designs both for existing devices and new concepts.
Key job responsibilities
• Lead the design of new devices and initiatives across the organization.
• Build a team that investigates, prototypes, and delivers new and innovative software solutions and concepts.
• Help root-cause and solve the hardest intrinsic challenges which the organization is facing.
• Suggest and develop tools and mechanisms which greatly help your peers and application developers writing applications for Fire TV
• Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.
A day in the life
In the role as Manager for the team you will be partnering directly with Program Managers to drive the System Architecture of new TV concepts, you'll work with development teams as new features are brought up and you'll collaborate with Release Program Managers to bring new improvements and optimizations to our existing customers. The team is focused on the stability and scaling of existing experiences and products as well as many new concepts which are in the works. The work varies greatly and a successful candidate needs to have a curious mind and strong problem solving skills.
About the team
The team mission and charter is anchored in delivering "best in class" experiences to our customers and at the same time to support the growth and scale of the Fire TV brand. To support these goals we're building a team of platform and system architects who can drive the embedded architecture, tools and platform functionality. The group is part of the larger Fire TV experience team which shares similar goals.