Director Software Development Jobs

• Demonstrated experience in building, delivering and operating services in a consumer-centric space.
• 15+ years of experience building and managing development teams that design and deliver large distributed systems
• Strong verbal/written communication and inter-personal skills
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• 5+ years people management experience building strong teams and managing managers. A passion for people management and mentorship.
• Experience in developing platforms with robust extensibility architecture
• Exceptional project planning/execution skills including estimating, scheduling, and executing on committed schedules.
• Masters Degree in Engineering preferably in Computer Science (or related discipline)
• Experience in building and optimizing large scale ML/DL inference service at low latency

Amazon Search creates powerful, customer-focused product search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, our systems go to work. We delight customers when we accurately understand their intent expressed via a query or image and reflect that understanding throughout the search page, from layout to the search results and navigation. We make shopping effortless when the resulting experience helps customers easily explore our vast selection and narrow down to a manageable consideration set, and provide them the information to make high confidence decisions with low post-purchase regret.Our Search Platform Technologies (SPT) organization designs, builds, and delivers high performance, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed search engine used by millions of Amazon customers every day. We are seeking a Director of Software Development in SPT to lead innovations in various backend services . In this role, you will set up a high caliber technology team with seasoned engineering managers and technologists, work closely with scientists to advance the state-of-the-art service that fundamentally changes how customers discover and find products on Amazon.Strong technical foundations, focus on customer obsession, business acumen and remarkable product vision are necessary to succeed in this role. Strong partnership with various business teams across Amazon to understand their evolving needs in the core data model, the matching and ranking algorithms requires sound judgement on common core features and the partner specific extension points. The team that builds the service has to be at the forefront of extensibility to delight our highly technical partnersPrimary responsibilities of the role include management of multiple software engineering teams and driving the technical vision for Search backend services. This role actively participates in developing the multi-year plans and roadmap for various services in our distributed architecture built with Apache Lucene at its core. Ability to understand Deep Learning and NLP algorithms would benefit immensely for collaborating with Applied Scientists in Search and partner teams. Product development scope for the role includes core system design, companion services, end-to-end QA responsibility, and, operational and open-source excellence. The role requires delivery of a complex product at a very high quality bar in a fast paced environment.The ideal candidate has experience through multiple complete consumer product or service development cycles, possesses superior analytical abilities and product judgment. Key to success in this position is an equal passion for delivering new features as well as operating the current applications at the highest level of quality, ensuring that our customers have a world-class experience.