Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Are you excited about building sophisticated distributed systems, low latency services, application of advanced machine learning techniques and mining of big data? Are you interested in working on services that are called 1000's of times per second and have latency requirement in the low milliseconds? Do you want to work on services that affect the way our customer buy products and have huge business impact? The BuyX team provides the opportunity to work on these one-of-a-kind problems and we are looking for smart developers to join the existing group of talented engineers in the team.

The team owns services that are exercised every time a customer looks at a product on the Amazon site. We process large amounts of data and come up with algorithms that run in real time. This requires the use of sophisticated distributed systems, application of advanced machine learning techniques and mining big data.

In this position you will partner with product managers, project managers, user experience designers and other software development teams. A successful candidate will have an established background with strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

The Software Development Manager will provide technical leadership and management for a team of experienced software developers. This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of software development, as well as demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment.

Why would you want to work for the BuyX team?

• Impact/Scale: You build systems that are exercised every time a customer sees any item on the Amazon website.
• Customer Impact: You build systems that help our customers make decisions on the best offers to buy.
• Learning: Work alongside some of Amazon’s smartest engineers.
• Wear many hats: You will have deep ownership of many different aspects of the service, such as product direction, technical design and implementation, and operations.
• Have fun: Our mantra is to work hard, play hard, and have fun. We also find ways to relax and unwind with team events and group lunches. You can also participate in a multitude of Amazon corporate events.
• Work/Life Balance: Our team works together to provide work/life harmony for all team members. We recognize that the circumstances of our team members vary, and we balance work across the team so that we’re all able to maintain high standards on behalf of our customers, while at the same time allowing for rich and happy personal lives

Key job responsibilities

In this position you will partner with product managers, project managers, user experience designers and other software development teams. A successful candidate will have an established background with strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

The Software Development Manager will provide technical leadership and management for a team of experienced software developers. This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of software development, as well as demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment.

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

Bangalore, KA, IND

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of engineering team management 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
• An MS degree in Computer Science.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in software design and development
• Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Distributed programming experience is highly recommended.
• Experience with Oracle or MySQL in a Linux or UNIX environment is a nice to have.
• Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Actively practicing professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.