Software Development Manager, Amazon Neptune

Key job responsibilities

• Lead the development of cloud-native database services
• Design, implement, test, and deploy database services optimized for cloud environments
• Mentor engineers and managers while contributing hands-on technical work
• Drive technical decisions, design tradeoffs, and feature prioritization
• Partner with senior executives to define business targets and resource planning
• Build and scale engineering teams through recruitment and talent development
• Shape technical strategy to deliver innovative solutions for customers

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud based technologies and services experience
• 10+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers