Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Job opening - Senior Manager, KDK Software Development at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

Software Development Manager, Kindle Active Content Developer Tools
The Active Content team is looking for a passionate, results-oriented, inventive software manager to own, define, and build developer tools for the Kindle Active Content platform. Candidates should understand software development for mobile devices as well as for large scale distributed services, thrive in a fast-paced environment, be eager to take on new responsibilities, and have a track record of delivering high quality, mission critical systems.
As the development manager for Active Content Developer Tools, you will lead a talented and nimble team of engineers to create innovative ways to enable developers to easily and quickly author high quality Active Content titles. Responsibilities include direct management of engineers, process and quality of software development and releases, strategic planning, project management for software within the team, and management of resources across teams. Succ! essful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. The Kindle Active Content business requires creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus.
Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
  • Exhibits excellent judgment
  • Hires and develops great people
  • Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
  • Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
  • Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
  • Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
  • Strong results orientation
  • Thinks big

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Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
  • 8+ years of re! levant engineering experience
  • 4+ years of relevant exp! erience in designing, building and releasing developer tools
  • 3+ years people management experience
  • Experience with OOD and object oriented languages

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Deep hands-on technical expertise
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong business and technical vision
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time
  • Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
  • Experience with scripting languages (javascript, python, perl)



If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyC! lick.aspx?id=1578233-2668-742

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