Software Development Manager - Video Ranking and Relevance

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon's Video Shopping Experience team has a problem: We have millions of videos that help millions of customers shop every day. These include product demos, customer reviews, buying guides, howtos, and others. How do we choose the right videos to show to the right customers at the right time, to help them make the right shopping decision? That's where you come in. We need a strong Software Development Manager with experience in Machine Learning, Big Data, and Service Oriented Architecture, to lead a team of talented engineers and scientists to solve this problem

As the leader for the VSE's Ranking and Relevance team, you will own the systems for cataloging, analyzing, ranking, and vending shopping related videos across Amazon. You will leverage your expertise in Machine Learning techniques to guide your team to deliver solutions at Amazon scale.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience leading multiple simultaneous product development initiatives as well as be able to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology, models and methodologies choices. You will strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment backed by statistical proof.

As an Amazon Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for the design, development, testing, and operations of our platform. Our managers deliver results while simultaneously investing in each team member's career and working skill set. Our managers stay involved in our technology, employ clear and concise communication, maintain high standards, and infuse our teams with energy and desire to achieve customer-focused results.

This position in the Video Shopping Experience team presents a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and help shape the technology, product and the business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, strong business acumen and judgment, an ability to define visionary, ground breaking products, ability to hire and lead a team, desire to have an industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 7+ years of professional experience in software development/engineering
· 3+ years of engineering management experience
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· Hands-on experience working in data science and/or machine learning using models and methods such as neural networks, random forests, SVMs or Bayesian classification
· Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
· Experience recruiting, hiring, and managing a team
· MS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Machine Learning, Statistics, or equivalent highly technical field.
· Excellent written and oral communication