Software Development Manager
Amazon, United States
Job Description
What is the Campaign Management team looking for?
We are looking for a strong, tech-savvy software development manager (SDM) to manage the DSP Core Technology team, one of three teams within the Campaign Management organization. You will focus on application architecture including UX and service federation, reducing latency for key customer flows, and deployment. We seek to reduce the time it takes for application development teams to deliver well-tested, scalable, and highly performant software. The Core team also provides automated mechanisms that act as the gatekeeper of our production environment preventing components that do not meet our quality and latency bar from deploying. The Core team is an infrastructure team that partners closely with app dev teams to deliver features to our advertising customers. We write code that directly impacts the advertiser experience. We also create architectural patterns for both front end and server side components that are put into practice by the multiple app dev teams with whom we work.
As a people leader, you will build and lead the team, manage performance, and shepherd the careers of your direct reports. Your excellent communication skills will be used to sharpen technical ideas, establish clear priorities, and drive high quality work under aggressive timelines.
Our browser-based advertising portal is built with a combination of ReactJS, Javascript, JAVA and REST. As the leader of a team of Software Development Engineers (SDEs), you won't be coding daily, but you should be comfortable reviewing code, have a strong sense of technical design, and bring appropriate rigor to solving complex customer problems.
If I were hired, what would I be working on?
Our team is continuing to grow and we need to a re-examine our existing architecture and define a bold vision for the next phase focused on ease of use, scaling and developer agility. We are currently using a mix of React/Web Components/JSP/Backbone.js and other libraries on the client and Java/Spring MVC on the server that have evolved over the past 6 years. Is it time to refactor our stack? What pieces should stay? What should go? What should our target state be? How do we get there? You and your team will lead in answering these questions. 2021 goals include reducing page load times for order blotter views to be best in class, determining how to best leverage ‘Native AWS’ as we migrate our services to it, reducing time to deploy from 5 days to <= 1 day, and more.
Why should I join your team?
Be a part of a team that is investing heavily in improving customer experience and infrastructure in a growing business. Work on major changes to campaign management components, not just tweaks. Work together with a data-driven team spanning technical leadership, UX, and development to delight customers. You will have major influence on our architecture and get to build out functionality using modern web tools and libraries. Solve interesting scale problems as we increase our customer base and grow volume 5x. Our overarching mission is to create a frictionless campaign management experience. We will simplify, automate and reduce effort at every turn for our advertising customers to put the right ad in front of the right audience at the right time in a cost effective manner.
Job Specification
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· 7+ years of relevant engineering experience
· 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
· Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Strong communication skills for both business and technical audiences
· Ability to clarify requirements, prioritize features, and drive projects through delivery with high quality under aggressive deadlines
· Experience in webapp development
· Experience in agile software development
· 5+ years of software development experience as a manager
· Prior experience as a software developer
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