Software Development Manager, AWS Just Walk Out

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 day-to-day 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 real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Just Walk Out builds technology enables a new kind of stores with no lines and no checkoutyou just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store take what they want from our selection of fresh delicious meals and grocery essentials and go!

Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology which 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 can just leave the store. Shortly after well charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt. Our Just Walk Out Technology uses a variety of technologies including vision sensor fusion and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in vision machine learning distributed systems and hardware.

As a Software Development Manager you will own delivery of cross functional initiatives to build new features and improve Just Walk Out experience. You will manage a team of 6-10 software development engineers to build and enhance the shopping experience in Just Walk out stores.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for an individual that thrives by creating high-bar engineering culture. Youll be chartered with building software that deliver critical capabilities to our AWS Just Walk out business enabling bar raising customer experience embed operational knowledge and encode best practices into everything we do.
We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect team members and management alike to take high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. Beyond a strong engineering data storage/modeling visualization and front-end background a successful candidate will have experience successfully leading teams developing people and building a scalable infrastructure. We are looking for someone that is a self-starter someone that approaches complex business questions with data and curiosity and a person that dives below the surface to identify the root cause and so what rather than just superficial trends

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The Retail Platform Technology team in AWS Just Walk out builds the platform and architecture that offers retail capabilities to the customers to run their Just walk out stores. This spans across various domains such as Order Management in-store pricing intelligence shopper receipts and refunds and the merchant experience capabilities that allow merchants to seamlessly integrate with Amazon to power their stores with Just Walk out technology.

- 2 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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