Software Development Manager

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Search team is responsible for the worldwide customer facing search features on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices – everything from the moment a customer clicks into the search box to when they view search results.

As a software development manager, you will manage a team working on end to end features of Search Experience (SearchX). SearchX team strives to create a great shopping experience for customers by creating components which help customers to find the right products. We touch the lives of hundreds of millions of Amazon customers every day. Our systems optimize every search page by building the page the best suits the customers' shopping mission. You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazon’s long-term vision on search. You will apply your experience and expertise to build and serve the state-of-the-art machine learning and reinforcement learning (RL) (explore-exploit algorithms); you will build and deliver distributed services with high concurrency, low latency and massive scalability and you will improve how search pages are rendered on customers' phones and computers. All your work will have a direct and visible impact on shopping experiences of Amazon customers.

Joining this team, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You will leverage the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), Earth's most customer-centric company one of the world's leading internet companies.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· 7+ years industry experience as a Software Engineer or a Software Developer;
· Experience building and leading complex, scalable, high-performance software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers;
· Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
· Knowledge in Machine Learning.
· Experience developing on Unix/Linux;
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
· 5+ years professional experience in software development
· Computer Science fundamentals experience in object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
· Programming experience in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java
· 2+ years of people leadership