Software Development Manager, Digital Content Platform

Brief on Work:
As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of highly competent engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of customer facing products on a variety of platforms. The additional responsibilities of the role include ensuring the various system-level SLAs are met, while maintaining unrelenting focus on the quality, throughput and innovation of the deliverable s, and manage the stakeholders. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing intuitive and user-friendly customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project and people management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be helping to hire and build your team and systems.


Responsibilities:
· Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle of a key products
· Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
· Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
· Management of staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
· Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
· Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
· Develop the long-term strategy and translate that into an achievable road map/action plan

• · Strong in Computer Science fundamentals and core areas like Problem Solving, Data Structures, Algorithms and Complexity Analysis
  · Strong Analytical Abilities and Problem Solving Skills
  · Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, or Java
  · Experience in conception, design & delivery of cross platform software
  · Experience in defining processes and establishing mechanisms that improves the efficiency of software development for customers and developers
  · Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
  Professional traits that is not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
  · Exhibits excellent judgment
  · Hires and develops great people
  · Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
  · Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
  · Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
  · Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
  · Strong results orientation
  · Thinks big
  
  Education:
  · BE / B Tech / MCA / ME / M Tech / Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fields
  
  Experience:
  · 10+ years of experience building successful production software systems with at-least 4 years of leading the product development

• · Deep hands-on technical expertise
  · Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  · Strong business and technical vision
  · Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  · A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time
  · Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions