Sr. Mgr, Software Development, Kindle Reader

Amazon is looking for an exceptional and motivated Senior SDM manager to work in the Kindle Reader organization. As a Sr.

SDM, you will be responsible for leading a team of talented, software engineers, test engineers and quality assurance engineers responsible for raising the bar on quality, time to market, and automation coverage on large-scale mobile and distributed cloud services to deliver the best reading experience for our global customers.

You will work with world-class engineers, business leaders, and other talented engineering teams while you design, architect, and automate systems and processes for the Kindle Reader.

You will join a team that is developing a platform on which many other Amazon partner teams innovate their reader experiences.

As a senior leader, you will think big and drive infrastructure, test frameworks, and automation decisions across the Reader organization.

You will support multiple devices, surfaces, and services to deliver awesome reader experiences. large-scale mobile and web client applications and distributed cloud services to deliver the best reading experience for our global customers.

You will also be responsible for building, maintaining, and organizing your teams, defining the technical strategy and product road map for your organization, as well as defining, measuring, and reporting on your organization’s key performance metrics.

Key job responsibilities

The successful candidate will :

• Be responsible for the end to end ownership of a quality engineering team including setting the technical vision for developing test frameworks and automation for our systems to serve Amazon's needs.
• Responsible for directly hiring, retaining, and growing top management and engineering talent within your group.
• Build and manage a team of engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining software for testing Kindle across the supported surfaces
• Be a champion of quality, automation, and operational excellence : establish team metrics for measurement of quality, automation and operational excellence and a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvements.
• Establish a consistent, project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations, for business partners in multiple geographies.
• Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision.
• Raise the bar on technical excellence, show thought leadership, and communicate well to different audiences.

About the team

Working at Amazon Kindle

Do you want to help the world to read more and get more out of reading every day? Are you inspired by re-inventing how people consume written content digitally?

Do you like the idea of seeing your work impact tens of millions of customers? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Kindle and Books.

We are a smart team of builders that work passionately to deliver an amazing reading experience to our customers across a large and growing number of computing and mobile environments.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
30+ days ago