As the software manager on the product knowledge team, based in Seattle, you will play a key role in the establishment of a new platform, with opportunities to create enormous benefit for our customers and Amazon. You will manage the team that takes academic research from theory to production implementation by overcoming performance, scalability, and resiliency challenges. You should enjoy optimization through rapid experimentation, have extremely high standards, and strong ability to implement in the face of ambiguity. Expertise in specialized areas such as Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Graph Processing, Search, Recommendation Systems, or Signal Processing, is desired. You will be recruiting software development engineers. We seek a creative lead who: (1) is passionate about their work, (2) works well with others, (3) has a positive attitude, and (4) can collaborate closely with the product graph science team and other client teams. You will build and lead
· 5+ years of software development experience. · 2+ years of people management experience · Computer Science fundamentals exeperience · Experience shipping large complex scalable systems/applications in an agile environment. · Experience of having worked in at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++. · Experience with professional software engineering best practices such as Agile project management, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.· Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical