Software Development Manager

DESCRIPTION

Company is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

You will build services to handle billions of requests per day, while maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the world's largest product catalogs and it is quite routine for our systems to operate on massive datasets using distributed frameworks. We consistently strive to improve the customer search and browse experience. You will not merely go through the full software development cycle but more importantly drive appropriate technology choices for the business, lead the way for continuous innovation, and shape the future of e-commerce. You will develop distributed solutions with service oriented architecture to build high performance platforms to service world's largest selection to millions of customers.

We are a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth business. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of the Company vision.

In this role you will be design new and rebuild existing solutions for the fast growing scale of the next generation of advertising services. Work with Principal engineers and have the opportunity to mentor and grow junior engineers.

As a manager of software development in Ads, you will part of the larger technical leadership community that forms the backbone of the company, plays a critical role in the broad business planning, working closely with senior executives, influences our long-term technical and business strategy, helps us hire talented team of engineers and ultimately enables us to deliver innovative new solutions rapidly.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading software engineering teams to deliver commercially successful technology products
• Demonstrated experience in Java and/or client-side technologies such as React JS and be familiar with software development under UNIX/Linux.
• Candidates must have a strong computer science background.
• Solid communication skills and ability to work well in a team are critical.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering with 10+ years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• Work experience delivering one or more version one products, ideally in a startup setting
• Demonstrated serial success in team building, agile processes, and software/service development
• Has taken software products and services from inception to customer delivery
• Two plus years of distributed computing experience.
• Has a track record of successfully participating in roadmap prioritization with product management; able to successfully communicate complex topics to customers and business executives alike
• Has experience with large scale distributed systems and enterprise software development.
• Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Company leaders:
• Dives deep on both technical and business issues
• Exhibits excellent judgment
• Hires great people. Develops great people.
• Has relentlessly high standards
• Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
• Thinks big and has convictions
• Results oriented
• Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others

Company is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.