Software Development Manager

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Interested in Machine Learning? How about Amazon Alexa? We're building the machine learning framework supporting multiple Amazon products and services, including Amazon Alexa and Echo. We're working hard, having fun, making history; come join us!

As the Manager of Software Development, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of distributed model training systems and large-scale data mining solutions. In this, you will collaborate closely with a team of speech and ML scientists. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering machine learning systems, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be helping to hire and build your team and systems, and will own defining the road map for your group.

Key Responsibilities:
· Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle
· Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments; Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
· Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
· Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
· Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
· Customer engagement and product road map definition.
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 (MS, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc.)
•Experience in designing and developing solutions to complex machine learning problems in a distributed systems environment
•Relevant technical credentials, with at least 3 years experience managing software development teams, ideally with some hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience
•Experience with the tools of the trade, including familiarity with modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Objective C) and open-source technologies (Apache, Hadoop)
•Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
•Ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, both verbally and in writing.