Were looking for an experienced leader to manage a terrific dev team.
Do you know what it takes to deliver top-notch software
Are you self-motivated and ready to help us establish best practices in a fun professional culture
If youre interested in being part of a fast-paced tech company with the worlds biggest e-commerce platform this could be the role for you. You and your team will build scalable AI systems that use machine learning to prevent fraud and damaged customer trust. Youll tackle complex problems and use state-of-the-art tools to support rapid business growth.
As the manager youll lead a team of highly-talented engineers to develop large-scale high-performance and reliable ML systems. Youll work closely with ML scientists and business owners understand their requirements and deliver innovative solutions to thwart those nefarious folk we call bad actors. Youll own and develop key systems to ensure that we continue to provide stable robust services to our customers and other teams. And youll get to innovate based on new ideas building comprehensive features for risk detection across Amazon.
This organization makes high-stakes decisions for a wide range of customers - buyers sellers vendors and more. Were building a safe trustworthy place for people to shop and sell. Its a constant balancing act but we use technology and science to scale it all. This engineering team creates next-gen ML services that are ahead of the industry. We accelerate AI and ML with automated intelligent solutions. And we leverage the latest tech from AWS as well as open source solutions to stay ahead of the bad guys.
Key job responsibilities
* 7 years industry experience
* Experience leading mentoring training and developing direct reports
* Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
* Experience building extensible backend system platforms
* Experience building and managing teams
* Solid understanding of OO and Design Patterns
* Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
* Attention to detail coupled with ability to think outside the box
* Excellent communication and analytical skills
* Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
About the team
This is a great team - its got a nice mix of talented software engineers with folks whove been at Amazon anywhere from 1.5 years to over 8 years. Theyre a tight-knit happy bunch of 8 super smart Amazonians. These engineers really know their stuff! They work across multiple projects and love a good challenge. They also collaborate well with their sister team and enjoy the flexibility to work with other teams to get things done.
- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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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