Software Development Manager, Specialist Technology Team

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

We own AI-powered content quality and security validation services used by
thousands of AWS builders and internal AWS services to ensure technical
documentation, training materials, and customer-facing content meets the highest
standards of technical accuracy and security compliance.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager who is passionate about
leading a team that owns the design and development of a machine learning-based
content assessment systems that supports AWS's extensive content ecosystem.

This team works on challenges including natural language processing, distributed
system design, scalable API development, machine learning model integration, and
automated testing frameworks. The role involves building serverless
architectures, selecting and implementing appropriate AWS based solutions,
designing complex content processing pipelines, and ensuring high availability
and performance at massive scale.

As a Software Development Manager you will work closely with a diverse and
talented team of engineers and product managers to ideate, build, operate, and
scale, impactful customer facing features across the full product development
lifecycle. You will leverage your experience and unique skills to grow engineers
individual careers, and deliver impactful projects to our customers. You are
open to learning new skills, growing your career, being mentored, and mentoring
others. You’ll collaborate with people and other teams across AWS to help us
deliver the highest standards for safety and security. You’ll experience an
inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to
completion.

Our ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for working on behalf of
customers, have a track record of on-time delivery of large scale projects, and
have the ability to operate independently and autonomously. This individual will
be able to understand complex problems and identify areas where they will need
to have their team invest, to ensure they are able to support the anticipated
growth and future requirements of the services. Maturity, judgment,
communication skills, negotiation skills and influencing skills are all
essential as you will interact with cross-functional teams worldwide.

Requirements

• 3+ 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
• 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, mentor, and manage teams of software engineers.
• Foster career growth and a strong team culture.
• Interface with the product manager and internal customers to understand requirements, set priorities, and communicate direction and progress.
• Own the operational health of your team’s software
• Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver tech requirements on time and with a high-degree of precision and quality.
• Coordinate with stakeholders in other groups, drive alignment across multiple orgs on shared goals and initiatives
• Make long term org design decisions, architectural decisions.
• Help develop long-term business and technology strategies.
• Drive improvements in software engineering practices.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level