Software Development Manager, Ring

Description
As an Software Development Manager at Ring Sidewalk, you will work with a focused team of engineers and partner teams building and releasing new SDKs and features. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation and release of SDK that will be incorporated in End points operating in Sidewalk network and also the the gateways that create the Sidewalk network

We are looking for entrepreneurial, innovative individuals who thrive on solving complex challenges. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.

You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected.

Key job responsibilities

Working with a team of engineers you will be responsible for;

• key architectural decisions for the firmware and Edge SDKs (Sidewalk Gateways, Sidewalk Endpoints and Sidewalk Mobile)
• On-Board and support new Silicon vendor platforms on Sidewalk network
• Collaborate and Work with Ring as well as Echo products to launch Sidewalk End points and Sidewalk Gateways
• design of new features for Sidewalk network
• documentation
• prioritization of resources
• supporting, developing and mentoring team members
• diving deep into product performance and seeking improvements
• build relationships with other teams to deliver results
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across the team

A day in the life

Asses the risks and plan for contingencies that impact the fixed schedule of SDK releases and product launches

Anticipate and act on tasks that require prompt action on the incidents that impact reliability of Sidewalk network

About The Team
The team are responsible for sustaining existing Sidewalk SDKs for Sidewalk Gateways, Endpoints and Mobile, that is used by the customers both internal to Amazon and external Silicon vendors. The team is also responsible for supporting customer and Silicon vendors . The team is responsible for delivering Sidewalk Gateway SDK that is integrated on Amazon Echos and Ring Cameras

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ 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 working directly within engineering teams
• Experience managing engineers
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience in engineering
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience leading embedded software teams in a product delivery organization
• Experience writing clear documentation covering leadership briefings, team briefings, design proposals and resourcing and team planning

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

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Company
- Amazon Development Center Taiwan Limited

Job ID: A3072374