Software Development Manager (Amazon Music)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Music – Any Way You Want It.

The Amazon Music Radio team is creating personalized listening experiences for every Amazon customer to discover and enjoy music. We’re working to make sure each station is the best part of each customer’s day, whether its on their commute, at their desk, or listening at home. We work to continuously improve the customer experience by both refining our advanced algorithms, experimenting with them at scale, and testing new big ideas and approaches to improve the experience of our millions of passionate music fans.

To achieve this, we are building systems to manage, monitor, and action hundreds of simultaneous experiments across thousands of stations. These systems must be scalable, robust, highly available, and low touch. We spend our time on things that matter to customers--not the muck of managing systems. We're also focused on building high throughput systems with a low cost of maintenance, using the best technologies and techniques at hand. We spend our time on things matter to customers, and not the muck of managing systems. We keep operations low through integration with AWS products, such as EC2, EMR, RDS, S3, and DynamoDB. Our services are full Continuous Deployment, with +90% automated test coverage. We're also focused on the latest techniques, using machine learning for classification and recommendations, and building on the expertise published in the latest papers from MIREX and ISMIR.

You are a talented, detail-oriented, and enthusiastic Software Development Manager who is excited about big challenges and big data. You will contribute your creative ideas and energy to improving the customer experience by leaps and bounds. Duties include hiring, developing, and managing a team of high-performing engineers who research, design, and implement software algorithms which test their best ideas against Amazon's legion of music customers. You will leverage your own strengths and those of your team to make Amazon Music Radio Stations the best part of each customers' day.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
· 5+ years of experience as a software developer
· 3+ years of experience managing people
· Experience developing and executing a software roadmap
· Experience managing platforms or infrastructure software systems
· Experience leading highly-skilled software engineering teams
· Experience forming teams and recruiting software engineers
· Experience developing careers with highly-skilled software engineer