Software Development Manager - Alexa AI-Natural Language Understanding at Amazon
Software Development Manager - Alexa AI-Natural Language Understanding Details
March 15, 2019, 6:55 a.m.
Software Development
Alexa AI Engineering
Seattle, Washington
Amazon Echo, is
Amazon Alexa, the speech processing and personal assistant technology behind Amazon Echo, is seeking a Software Development Manager to enhance Alexa's language understanding capabilities. As a Manager of Software Development - AI, you will be responsible for leading an organization of engineers in define, design, development, test, deployment, and operation of large scale distributed systems targeted at increasing Alexa's rate of innovation. A successful candidate will have an established background in driving clarity in highly ambiguous technical environments, developing long-term technical roadmaps, a strong technical ability to guide and coach, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be responsible for building, maintaining, and organizing your teams, defining the technical strategy and product road map for your organization, as well as defining, measuring, and reporting on your organizations
· BS in Computer Science or equivalent · 7+ years experience in software development. · 3+ years experience managing software development teams with agile development methodologies · 3+ years of hands on experience in architecting and building highly scalable distributed systems · Experience in developing long-term product and technical strategies · Experience influencing leadership decisions through presentation of complex technical information, both verbally and in writing · Experience forming teams and recruiting software engineers · Experience developing careers with highly-skilled software