Are you a hands-on leader that can make a substantial impact on a dynamic, fast-moving business? Are you equally comfortable digging into business requirements as drilling into architecture and design with development teams? Do you have a passion for bringing the best experience to our customers? Then this is the position for you. Amazon's Alexa Shopping needs a world-class Software Development Manager to lead a team of software engineers developing innovative solutions in the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) domain. This role requires working closely with the product management team, the applied and data scientists, and the partner teams across the company to analyze requirements, define technical strategy, and build impactful NLU solutions. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks, and product strategy. Excellent listening, writing skills, and strong technical competency are essential. The ideal candidate has experience managing a team of talented software engineers and can focus clearly on delivery and the customers. The candidate has experience managing multiple complete product development cycles, possesses superior analytical abilities and product judgment. This opportunity requires excellent people management skills, problem-solving, and communication skills. Key to success in this position is an equal passion for managing a high-performing organization and delivering leading-edge technology. Qualified candidates have experience defining projects and features, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating large cross-functional projects and schedules, analyzing the cost and benefit of feature selection, and communicating results throughout the organization.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline
* 2+ years of experience managing a software development team, building processes, managing projects, and release schedules
* Excellent problem-solving skills
* Hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience
* Understanding of modern programming languages such as Java and C#.
* Experience working with mission critical or tier-1 systems and solutions
* Experience working with cross functional stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
* Experience with agile or other program management methodologies
* 8+ years experience in software development with at least 2 years of experience directly managing a team of developers
* Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
* Knowledge of 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
* Experience with developing, releasing and maintaining large-scale services or applications