Do you want to lead a team building OS framework components for the next generation of apps running on Amazon Devices? Do you believe in the “Write Once Run Anywhere” coding paradigm? How about your team providing a positive impact to our smart home customers by ensuring unique Amazon technologies are easily available to app developers? Do you want to work in a horizontal team making an impact on a wide range of products? If so, join us as Software Development Manager to build app frameworks in Device OS.

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager at Amazon, you will take your technical experience to a new level by leading a team of engineers to deliver consumer devices that enable Amazon services in the homes of our customers. In the primary scope of this role you and your team will own new frameworks components which will be used for building visual apps for Amazon devices. These critical frameworks will make it faster and easier than ever for application developers to write software for our devices. If you have a passion for on-device software, and making it easy for app developers to create interactive visual experiences, this is an ideal position for you. This role will allow you to push the boundaries of what customers can do by driving efficient and scalable solutions. You will focus on common software that runs across device types, giving you scale to solve multiple use cases at once. You will be challenged to create rich customer applications, while also optimizing for performance and ease of use by customers.

Ideal candidates will use their experience to clearly communicate and translate requirements into elegant solutions. You will work in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment.

A day in the life
You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you'll lead a team on technical designs and architecture. To build our app based experiences you will interact with product teams to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and to provide technical solutions that are required in defining our next generation products. One of the important aspects of the role is to develop the best, and you’ll have opportunities to build a team and mentor others by sharing your knowledge across multiple teams as we build a truly unique OS development experience.

About the team
Our team exists to provide application framework components which plays a critical role in providing core paradigms, patterns, primitives, capabilities while providing cross platform APIs for app development. Primitives include runtime components for managing lifecycle, security, app to app communication mechanisms using IPC, application packaging services and tools and device stability management framework for memory, CPU, storage, I/O etc. As a part of the Device OS organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.