Job Description

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Job summary
Amazon Dash cart allows shoppers to checkout without lines - you just place the items in the cart and the cart will take care of the rest. When you're done shopping, you leave the store through a designated dash lane. We charge the payment method in your Amazon account as you walk through the dash lane and send you a receipt. Check it out at .

Designed and custom-built by Amazonians, our Dash cart uses a variety of technologies including computer vision, sensor fusion, and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth's most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision, machine learning, algorithms and software.

The Role: Everyone on our team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment that's more of a startup than a big company. We're solving problems that span a broad range of domains: distributed systems, IoT, computer vision, image recognition, machine learning, and network engineering.

As a Manager of Software Development, you'll build an elite team of development engineers to define, drive and execute on this vision. You will invent and ship software that directly impacts our end customer experience. You'll develop your team of highly motivated and talented builders who can collaborate with product managers, technical specialists, and principals across the company.

Responsibilities

• You'll lead the overall development life cycle of software solutions and manage complex projects with significant impact.
• Coordinate with your senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for product development.
• Assure that your team's designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Prioritize, plan projects and features, manage partners, and track internal and external commitments.
• Measure and monitor operation of production services to ensure Operational Excellence.
• Foster the career development of your direct reports.

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field
• 7 years of software development, and at least 3 years in software management experience including managing people.
• Experience managing and developing direct reports (performance review communication, accountability, motivation/engagement)
• Solid system design skills
• Knowledge of software development best practices
• Experience with agile software development methodologies(Scrum/Kanban)
• Knowledge of at least one high-level programming language (e.g., Java, C++)

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Experience working in start-up mode building products and services from the ground up
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience operating critical systems
• Experience with front-end technologies and/or prior coding experience