Software Development & Testing Manager

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
As a Software Development Manager (SDM) you will be responsible for owning the team's roadmap and ensuring the strategic visions is executed. You will be responsible for gathering customer requirements, project prioritization, software quality, and system delivery. You will help mentor, develop, and the guide the engineers responsible for the system development.
As a SDM, you will lead and work with a talented team to innovate and deliver distributed software systems responsible for operational tooling applications built to execute the Leo mission. Because of the scale of the mission, your team will be focused on creating performant applications and systems and driving operational excellence - identifying areas of improvement and initiating changes to improve the productivity of the fleet.
While this tooling system is mostly frontend applications, you will also own the architecture and backend systems that support these applications.
You should have strong knowledge software engineering practices, enjoy mentoring and developing the engineers that work on your team.
S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Provide technical guidance for the team in addressing projects with broad scope and limited definition to ensure test and design objectives are met.
- Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure team and project success.
- Communicate fluidly across a variety of teams to identify product risks and how they will be addressed to ensure mission success.
- 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 in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in Space Vehicle/Satellite Operations, Space Communications or related industry
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