Software Development Manager – Alexa Machine Learning Platform

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Interested in Machine Learning? How about Amazon Echo? We’re building the machine learning platform behind Amazon Echo and other Amazon products and services. We’re working hard, having fun, making history; come join us!
As a Manager of Software Development, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products on the cloud platform. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing products, a strong technical ability, excellent stakeholder management skills, great communication, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be helping to hire and build your team and systems.
Key Responsibilities:

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· Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle
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· Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments; Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
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· Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
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· Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
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· Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
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If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
· 8+ years experience in software development.
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· 3+ years experience managing software development teams
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· 3+ years of hands on experience in architecting and building highly scalable distributed systems
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· Experience leading highly-skilled software engineering teams
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· Experience forming teams and recruiting software engineers
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· Experience developing careers with highly-skilled software engineers
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· 3+ years of experience in both written and verbal communication to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner.