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# Software Development Manager, Fire TV Search & Discovery

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $212,700.0 - $287,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Alexa, Software Design Patterns, Software Product Management, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Deep Learning
- **Published:** June 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27770218/Software-Development-Manager-Fire-Tv-Search-Discovery-California-Sunnyvale-7375

## About the Role

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
 - 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

## Description

Alexa Video team's mission is to provide best in class content search and discovery experience on all Alexa endpoints like Fire TV, Echo Show, Alexa app etc. We do that by using state of the art AI technologies such as Large Language Model and other deep learning techniques while also developing differentiated customer interfaces like conversational search.
You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience that will be used every day by people you know. We're looking for hands on engineering managers who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of ownership, and want to have fun while they make history.
As Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers who would develop software systems to develop LLM facing APIs and conversation interface to render the video search and play back experience across different end points. A successful candidate would have background on GenAI and prompt engineering . The candidate would have experience developing customer-facing experiences, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in ambiguous and fast changing environment.

Key job responsibilities

 - Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
 - Own the technical strategy that leads to improved search experience.
 - Inculcate culture of experimentation and innovation.
 - Own operational excellence of the services they own.
 - Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, career development, performance management of a best-of-class engineering team.


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