Software Development Manager

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Central Retail Pricing is core team that generates prices for worldwide Amazon inventory, you'll play a key role in the evolution of our machine learning based Pricing algorithms to solve the world's most complex technical challenges in pricing optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, algorithms and data mining - to name a few. The Pricing systems are responsible for determining and publishing prices automatically, for the millions of items that Amazon sells worldwide ranging from Books to Consumer Electronics to Shoes. Each country presents a unique set of complexities in generating the price. We are coming up with new machine learning algorithms to lower the prices for our customers. We are redesigning our core services to scale up with Amazon's growth plans.
As an experience SDM in Amazon Pricing team, you will play a key role in solving some of the world's most complex technical challenges presented by machine learning and big scale systems. You will apply Large-scale computing, Distributed systems, Data mining, Scalability, Machine learning and Statistical Algorithms techniques.

To be successful you will need to be able to keep the long-term objectives in mind while guiding the team through short-term obstacles. You drive relentlessly to develop the careers of your developers, improve our development processes, remove bottlenecks and friction, and allow the team to move at a fast pace. You will need to collaborate closely with business leads, product owners, technical program managers, designers and partner teams. You are comfortable with a degree of ambiguity and are always open to identifying alternative paths.

What does an ideal Software Development Manager candidate look like? First, you have demonstrated strong technical, project management, and leadership skills by leading a team of software engineers to develop products used by millions of people every day. You love attracting and growing high caliber-talent, and have a record of accomplishment to prove it.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

The Software Development Manager for our team is required to have these qualifications:

· Bachelors / Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline.
· 8+ years of relevant engineering experience.
· 3+ years' experience managing one or more teams of software developers.
· Experience with Agile, OOD and other software development best practices.
· A deep understanding of software development in a team environment, and a record of accomplishment of shipping software on time.
· Strong verbal and written communication skills and an ability to work in a team environment.