Software Development Manager, eero

Description

Networking has become a critical component to every home worldwide. eero, an Amazon Company, is the first product to deliver a whole home networking experience using mesh and other technologies to make sure you never have to worry about connectivity again. We believe customers deserve the best connectivity and smart home experience possible. To find out more about eero, please checkout

The Connectivity team at eero is looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead a team of wireless networking engineers. This team's charter is to develop wireless and wired networking features to delight eero's consumer and business customers.

The role requires a manager who is a technical leader, who has deep understanding of embedded and business networking uses cases and solutions, who can drive projects from Product and ideation, through design, implementation, deployment, and all the way to field monitoring and iterative improvements in performance and customer experience; a team player, who works well with peers of all levels, who is comfortable and effective in an uncertain, fast-moving environment.

This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on all aspects of a new product line while working to build a world-class company that embodies great design, attention to detail, technological innovation, and quality.

• Manage and develop an high-performance team of engineers
• Identify, champion, and deliver the highest impact engineering investments that your team needs in order to continue to deliver in the long term
• Partner with the Product team in defining and refining new requirements
• Collaborate with engineers, managers, and other stakeholders on requirements and execution of projects
• Guide and sometimes lead the definition of the technical solutions that would meet product requirements
• Manage, motivate and support the team members though their personal and professional challenges
• Communicate a rolled up status in an understandable way to a wide range of audiences
• Estimate delivery dates with confidence intervals based on the measured team velocity, remaining work, and projected new work

eero is a small and dynamic organization, and you will have a fair amount of control over how you pursue your and your team's goals. You will be constantly cooperating with other teams, within the Connectivity (Access Point Software) org, and with peers in the cloud, data, mobile, product, support and sales teams.

We are a small and energetic team, comitted to eero's and Amazon's success, as well as to personal growth

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of management experience
• Experience managing and developing high performance teams
• Experience working with engineering and product teams to define a product and bring it to market
• Experience driving technical strategy and identifying high-impact engineering investments
• Experience leading cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, and stakeholder groups
• Demonstrated ability to guide technical solution design and architecture decisions
• Experience with capacity planning and delivery estimation using team velocity metrics

• 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
• Experience with networking fundamentals
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical status to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in designing, implementing and shipping new products
• Experience in hiring, mentoring and growing new engineers and managers
• Experience with C, Python and Golang programming languages
• Experience with cloud-managed home and business networks
• Familiarity with wireless protocols
• Ability to quickly ramp up on the essentials of new technical areas

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

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