Amazon

Software Development Manager, Spokenwords, Spokenword

Posted On

May 19, 2025

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Software Development

Apply By

June 10, 2025

Job Description

Amazon Music is growing fast, with Prime Music, Free-Tier, Amazon Music Unlimited, and Podcasts! We are looking for a talented Engineering Manager to join our Podcast team.

You will be responsible for leading the effort to invent and build many new solutions that solve variety of customer facing problems in the podcast space. You'll do this by bringing your own passion for podcasts and obsessing over making our service more useful to customers. You'll also bring your genius architectural chops to drive engineering improvements.

Spokenword experience have been around for awhile, but there is a ton of untapped potential to create a top tier customer experience to help new customers discover compelling content, as well as improving the experience for expert-level users. Imagine being a part of an agile team where millions of customers engage with your teams work as their daily habit. We believe in creating empowered teams where everyone has the ability to contribute to our product vision and roadmap. Imagine having the resources of Amazon at your disposal combined with agility and mindset of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music Spokenword, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Podcasts and Audiobooks.

You will be part of a team focusing on several customer facing challenges, such as creating a best of breed Alexa experience for podcasts, audiobooks building the best models for searching and discovering podcasts, audiobooks and helping to personalize the podcast and audiobook experience for our customers. You should feel comfortable working in across different architectural areas such as building scalable services, using data science to understand our customers behavior, working with applied scientists to build and integrate ML-models into customer experiences, and delivering customer facing CX components (via Alexa and visual applications).

As a software development manager you will be responsible for insuring your team delivers valuable results for our customers. You will also be responsible for hiring and growing team members. We fervently believe that the best podcast customer experience has yet to be created. Come help us build it!

About Amazon Music
Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on cutting-edge consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, and so much more.
Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.

Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

Come innovate with the Amazon Music team!

- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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