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Software Development Manager - Recruiting Technology Edinburgh, Scotland
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Do you want to make a real difference to real people's lives? Want to lead a team to design and build fair systems which automate recruitment processes across Amazon? Do you enjoy leading teams of engineers and machine learning scientists working on innovative, high-scale, complex, international solutions? Do you enjoy end-to-end responsibility, working on business ideas as well as technology, software engineering and operations? An amazing opportunity has arisen for a Software Development Manager to join Amazon's worldwide Recruitment Technology team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Come be part of a team that develop new engineering and machine learning (ML) technologies, which help Amazon scale for it's customers by recruiting diverse teams. You will lead an engineering and science team in at our Development Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. You will be responsible for everything from business ideas through to technology, software engineering and operations. You and your team will be accountable for running the systems you build, continually inventing new features and improving your performance against business and operational metrics. Successful candidates will have a background in software development, most likely with a Computer Science degree. You will be detail-driven, numerate and have excellent problem solving abilities. You should be a confident people manager with a track record of growing high performance teams. You will have a system-wide, architectural view of the solutions that your team build. You will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis, research and technical design through to software development management using the latest technologies and design patterns. The systems you contribute to will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7. Come join a team full of talented people, who come from all over the world. Enjoy the chance to work in a relaxed setting with a good social life. The team based in Edinburgh, Scotland is rapidly expanding. Successful candidates will have strong technical ability, a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for Software Development Managers who can delight our customers by continually learning and inventing. Our ideal candidate is an experienced Software Development Manager who has a track-record of performing analysis and applying statistical techniques to solve real business problems, who has great leadership and communication skills, and who is motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. The position offers an exceptional opportunity to grow your technical and non-technical skills and make a real difference to Amazonians worldwide. The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to people's lives in our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class systems, delivering results, working on exciting and challenging projects. You must be able to: Be a credible Agile/Scrum/Lean/Kanban engineering leader for a team of high-performing software engineers. Partner with colleagues across the company (and across the world) to define and deliver complex features. Lead the delivery of large, complex projects. Anticipate bottlenecks, escalate as needed, balance business needs versus technical constraints. Actively manage risks and issues. Write effectively, sharing relevant project updates, plans and metrics with stakeholders.