Amazon Software Development Manager Core Search 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

400835973

Key job responsibilities
- Oversee the development and iteration of the Lucene-based Search Engine that supports both lexical and semantic search capabilities.- Ensure that the search platform can handle high throughput and strict latency requirements to deliver a fast and responsive shopping experience.- Drive process improvements, setting technical direction, and making strategic decisions to evolve the Lucene-based search infrastructure.
A day in the life
Global Coordination:Interfacing with science partners across different organizations to incorporate the latest advancements in areas like natural language processing and approximate nearest neighbor search.Cross-Functional Alignment:

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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

- 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
- Bachelor's degree