1+ years of engineering team management experience
- 6+ years of engineering 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
Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show and Echo Spot. Amazon Photos is the latest digital offering to consumers released on the heels of the Amazon Music and Amazon Video offerings. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product.
**Why you want to be on the Photos team**: We’re technology professionals, photographers and photo enthusiasts who are genuinely passionate about how we can make preserving and re-living digital photographs a simple joy. We’re a close-knit team of friendly, collaborative people. We’re super smart and love learning. We're really excited to be expanding into Mexico City and looking for a leader who will help make this expansion a huge success (and grow in the process).
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Key job responsibilities
- Build, motivate, reward and coach a diverse team of engineers.
- Prioritize, plan projects and features, manage partners and track external commitments.
- Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the software while keeping an extremely high bar on customer trust, performance, and availability.
- Work with Technical Program Managers, Product Managers, and UX Designers while defining and executing your team’s charter.
- Provide inputs into quarterly and yearly planning.
Mexico City, DIF, MEX
- 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
- Advanced writing and spoken English proficiency