Software Development Manager, Alexa Shopping

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Software Development

Software Development Manager for Alexa Shopping, leading teams to build voice-enabled and AI-powered e-commerce experiences using speech recognition, NLU, and ML.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and build high-performing engineering teams working on horizontal capabilities and services that support the Alexa Shopping experience.
  2. Drive technical innovation and excellence while working at the intersection of voice technology, machine learning, and e-commerce.
  3. Shape the future of voice-enabled shopping, working with technologies in speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine learning.
  4. Manage teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-powered experiences
  • voice technology
  • machine learning
  • speech recognition
  • natural language understanding

Other signals

  • voice-enabled and AI-powered experiences
  • speech recognition
  • natural language understanding
  • machine learning