Software Development Manager, Alexa Growth

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Manager, Alexa Growth in Hyderabad, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
The posting mentions Alexa, software development and team management among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
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AI in this role

Manage an engineering team focused on growing Alexa engagement through high-tempo experimentation and web services.

Alexa

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Alexa Growth organization's mission is to enable Alexa+ engagement depth and breadth by focusing on C/WAA (Conversations per Weekly Active Account) and #asks/WAA. We drive acquisition of new customers and deepen engagement of existing ones through horizontal, cross-functional initiatives, end-to-end experience optimization, and rigorous high-tempo experimentation — worldwide, across paid and free tiers. We are under the broader Alexa Core Experiences org and are looking for a Software Development Manager based out of our Hyderabad office.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager in Alexa Growth, you will be responsible for directly managing a team of engineers, for ensuring that their work is delivered on time and at a high quality, and for making technical decisions from software architecture to operational excellence. You will ensure your features can scale to support Alexa in a variety of languages and across the wide range of devices on which Alexa is available.

Basic qualifications

- 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

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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How we rate this

Software Development Manager, Alexa Growth at Amazon rates 30 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
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Key facts

Software Development Manager, Alexa Growth is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IN, TS, Hyderabad.
The job was posted on September 9, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Software DevelopmentTeam ManagementWeb ServicesDistributed SystemsAlexa

Questions you could be asked

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Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used Alexa in your day-to-day work.

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