Software Development Manager, Fire TV Ambient and App Experiences

The Amazon Fire TV team is seeking a passionate, results-oriented Software Development Manager to be part of the Ambient and App Experiences team. This role offers the opportunity to transform how millions of customers experience their televisions by reimagining what Fire TV does during idle moments—converting a black rectangle into a beautiful, useful, and personalized screen in the home. The Ambient team delivers curated art collections, family photos, AI-generated art, ambient scenes, and proactive intelligence powered by Alexa+, creating an all-day device experience that extends far beyond traditional viewing.

As the Software Development Manager for this team, you will drive the technical strategy and execution on Fire TV. This role requires a leader who can balance innovation with execution, managing complex technical initiatives across device, middleware, and cloud services while building and inspiring high-performing engineering teams to deliver customer-obsessed experiences at scale.

You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazon’s long-term vision, which includes rapid innovation in building better voice interfaces to the media and entertainment content that Fire TV customers love! We leverage technology in client-app frameworks, big data, machine learning, optimization techniques and high availability services. Here on the Fire TV team, we are dedicated to creating the most engaging entertainment platform for the whole family, worldwide.

As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for hiring and leading a team of engineers responsible for building high performing, fluid applications that interact with large scale distributed systems. In this position you will partner with product managers, project managers, and other internal partners. A successful candidate will have an established background with strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions and focus on improving performance. The leader we are looking for will bring proven experience building, managing and mentoring engineering teams.

In this role, you will:
- Work with partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions that delight customers
- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
- Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules
- Manage departmental resources, staffing and mentoring and enhance and maintain a best-in-class engineering team.
- Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications
- Report on status of development, quality, operations and system performance to management

This is an enormous opportunity to lead the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day by people you know.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ 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 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and