Software Development Manager, Prime Video App Experience
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to Amazon's industry leadership, expansive reach in streaming, and potential for significant impact in the entertainment landscape.
- Lead development initiatives in a major streaming service
- Strong potential for career growth in a tech-dominant environment
- Contribute to high-impact projects affecting millions of users
- Requires significant prior leadership experience
Pros
- Opportunity to lead innovative projects in a high-growth area of technology
- Collaboration with skilled professionals in a renowned company
- Potential for substantial influence on customer experience and product strategy
Cons
- High expectations for candidate performance and leadership
- Fast-paced environment may suit only those comfortable with rapid change
- Limited information on compensation could hinder candidate interest
Who it's for
Mid to Senior • Hybrid (possibly remote options)
Good fit
- Software development managers with solid leadership experience
- Individuals interested in user experience innovation
- Candidates eager to work in a dynamic and fast-evolving sector
Not recommended for
- Those lacking adequate experience in software development leadership
- Candidates preferring a slower-paced work culture
- Individuals uncomfortable with high expectations and performance metrics
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Description
Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.
Are you excited about the online streaming future of the NFL, French Open, UEFA Champion’s League, and English Premiere League? That’s just half of it! We are also the home of The Expanse, The Boys, Lord of the Rings, and the largest streaming content library in the world.
You will be part of the leadership group looking to brainstorm, design and launch green field features and client experiences across platforms and geographies. In this role, you will be engineering the next generation of applications that will deliver live sports, movies, series, seasons, and episodes to millions of customers across our ecosystem of client devices.
Responsibilities
- Lead a software team responsible for building scalable, reliable services that can serve millions of users
- Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers
- Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics
- Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements.
- Influence and adopt industry standards for building client experiences
- Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute road maps, project plans, and commitments
- Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner
- Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverable
- Fluency with GenAI based software development practices
