🏢 Company: Amazon (Amazon Development Centre India Pvt. Ltd.)
📍 Location: Pune
💼 Experience: 8–13 Years
💰 Salary: Not Disclosed
🗓️ Posted: 10 days ago
About the Role
Amazon is looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) to lead a team of engineers on the Alexa Endpoints team in Pune. In this role, you will own the technical vision, execution, and people development for a team building customer-facing Alexa experiences on mobile devices (iOS/Android).
p>Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Delivery
- Own the end-to-end technical strategy and roadmap for your team’s area within Alexa Endpoints.
- Drive architecture decisions for mobile SDKs, voice interaction pipelines, and endpoint integrations (Android/iOS).
- Ensure high-quality, on-time delivery of features and services; manage trade-offs between scope, quality, and timeline.
- Establish and maintain operational excellence, including monitoring, alarming, on-call processes, and incident response.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Alexa platform, cloud services, QA, TPM) to remove blockers and align priorities.
People Management & Development
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 8+ software development engineers (SDE-1 through SDE-3).
- Hire top talent; build a diverse, inclusive team with a high performance bar.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, set clear goals, deliver actionable feedback, and manage performance effectively.
- Create career development plans and provide coaching to help engineers reach their full potential.
- Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and customer obsession.
Strategic Impact
- Influence the broader Alexa Endpoints and Alexa Mobile organization’s technical direction.
- Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity, code quality, and system reliability.
- Drive adoption of best practices in software engineering, testing, CI/CD, and automation.
- Represent your team in OP planning; define goals, resource needs, and success metrics.
- Champion initiatives around AI/ML adoption, test automation, and operational efficiency.
Required Skills
Android · iOS · SDK · Backend · Coding · Product Management · Team Management · TPM · Monitoring · Team Building · Operational Excellence
Eligibility & Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
- 7+ years of engineering experience.
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
- 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.
- Experience designing or architecting new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
- Strong communication skills with users, technical teams, and senior leadership.
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers.
- Experience with Android, iOS, or other mobile application development or testing.
About the Team
The Alexa Endpoints team is at the forefront of delivering intelligent conversational AI experiences across platforms. They build and maintain the critical infrastructure that powers the Alexa mobile application, with a primary focus on developing/integrating with the SDK that enables seamless communication between mobile clients and backend AI agents. The team manages services like AlexaMobileSuggestionService and implements sophisticated solutions for utterance handling, deeplink generation, and multi-modal interactions — ensuring security, scalability, and exceptional customer experience across iOS and Android platforms.
p>About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. With 100,000+ employees globally, Amazon continues to build technologies, invent products, and provide services that change lives. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
How to Apply
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