Software Development Manager, Prime Video Buying and Renting Experience - London

Job Description

Come build the future of entertainment with us.

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

The TVOD Commerce team is responsible for the buying and renting experience in Prime Video and is seeking a Software Development Manager to build a world-class data-as-a-service system. Working with Product Managers and key stakeholders and executives around the world, you will own the engineering vision for how we build and scale our services to delight a global audience and make the hottest movies and TV shows available to our customers. This job will challenge you on any fronts – you will solve technical challenges associated with scaling services, managing large data sets, and maintaining customer security and privacy. You will drive innovation and future solutions that will impact how we run systems that support the expansion of Prime Video worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for the long term, strategic vision for your team, the day-to-day management of your team's roadmap, and the growth and development of your direct reports. You will also work closely with partner engineering and business teams to ensure we are always delivering the right things for customers.

A day in the life
A typical day will involve attending your team's sprint ceremonies (standups, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings), reviewing operational metrics, one-on-ones with your directs and key stakeholders, and meetings to drive alignment with partners and establish/deliver on your team's long term vision. You will also help to build an inclusive team culture.

Key stakeholders are other SDMs, TPMs, and PMTs in Prime Video (notably the Prime Video Catalog org), partners in business teams (especially US and Europe TVOD teams).

About the team
The TVOD Commerce team is responsible for the entire rent and buy experience for movies and TV show worldwide. This role focuses on the management of movies, TV shows, and Pay Per View sports that customers have bought and rented. The team keeps customers at the center of everything we do. We strive to build an inclusive and respectful culture where everyone is comfortable being themselves. We celebrate the unique experiences, thoughts, and skills that each person brings.

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

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications:

- 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 in engineering
- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
- Experience managing engineers
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

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

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