Job summary
Interested in Amazon Alexa? Come work on the engine behind it - Alexa Skills Kit. We own an expanding collection of services and APIs for ambient computing, which will enable both Amazon and third party developers to deliver cutting-edge multi-modal experiences to their customers wherever Alexa is present - devices, mobile apps, and web clients. We’re working hard, having fun, making history; come join us!

As a Software Development Manager on the ASK Developer Tools team, you will lead and develop a group of experienced engineers who are incredibly technical, agile, data driven, and highly collaborative. Your focus in this role will be to improve and expand the set of core AI and LLM-supported capabilities of Skills by creating an extensible, robust and scalable prompt management ecosystem. You will work closely with Product Managers, Applied Scientists, Language Engineers, and Software Engineers across multiple teams to design, develop, test, and deploy a range of products and features to improve overall skill development and management. You will own a portfolio of services that power the core developer experience for building voice-centric applications. An ideal candidate will have an established background in building developer experiences, an interest in natural language understanding, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You will be helping to hire and build your team and products.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.



Key job responsibilities
End-to-end development lifecycle of products under ownership
Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
Management of planning and day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-in-class engineering team
Work closely with engineers to architect and develop technical designs and approaches that will stand the test of time
Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management