Software Development Manager - Just Walk Out Technology JWO

As part of the AWS Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage daytoday operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons realworld experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are nobrainers to buy and easy to use.

The Team: From the merchandise stores at Sports venues to smallformat stores such as Amazon Go a new kind of technology is powering stores with no lines and no checkout. You simply use the Amazon app to enter the store take what you want from our selection of fresh delicious meals grocery essentials and merchandise and go.

Our checkoutfree shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out (JWO) Technology. It automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When youre done shopping you just leave the store. Shortly after well charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt. Designed and custombuilt by Amazonians our technology uses computer vision sensor fusion and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA. We need people who want to join a highreaching program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision machine learning distributed systems and hardware design.

The Role: Everyone on our team needs to be entrepreneurial wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment thats more startup than big company. Were solving problems that span a broad range of domains: computer vision image recognition machine learning and distributed systems. This role involves building/scaling Machine Learning platform used for developing all the algorithms at JWO.

As a Manager of Software Development youll manage a team to define drive and execute on this vision. Youll develop your team of highly motivated and talented builders who can collaborate with product managers technical specialists and principals across the company. You should be customer obsessed datadriven and comfortable influencing up and down a large organization especially at senior levels.

Key job responsibilities
Define the longterm vision strategy and goals for your teams
Manage a development team responsible for the core of Amazon Gos Just Walk Out technology
Prioritize plan projects and features manage partners and track external commitments.
Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the platform while keeping an extremely high bar on customer trust performance and availability.
Foster the career development of your direct reports.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bengaluru KA IND

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of engineering experience
8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of engineering experience
8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

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