Software Development Manager, Amazon Data Services

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

AGI Data Services organization is responsible for procuring data needed for
building and validating large-language models. Today, AGI Data Services produces
large amounts of of human-created and human-in-the-loop data that is used to
train and evaluate large language models. The data is produced through multiple
delivery channels, depending on complexity, type, and volume. One of the
strategic channels to build and develop for AGI Data Services is external crowd
sourcing where AGI Data Services can directly hire/recruit, engage and manage
the crowd to generate high quality ground truth.

Software Development Manager in this space will lead the engineering team to
define, design, and execute the charter of recruiting and onboarding high
quality external annotators (aka experts) who are proficient in complex domains
such as STEM, SWE, Finance, Medicine, etc.

This role’s scope includes defining strategy, processes and requirements, and
leading cross functional development teams from design through delivery. You
will be accountable for driving the entire product lifecycle, from platform
product definition through specification, coding, quality assurance and launch
to the potential millions of external experts who are interested to annotate and
earn money across multiple countries. Most importantly, these software
capabilities will be external facing and be made generally available. As a
result, the software development manager leading this charter will be
responsible for taking multiple decisions that involve PR, legal and compliance.
Cross-team coordination, project and program management and writing skills are
essential for this role.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Lead AI driven software capabilities that enable hiring, recruiting and vetting of 50K+ external candidates who are subject matter expert in STEM, SWE, Finance and other complex domains for Nova and other Gen AI model data collection needs.
• Drive alignment and execution of key business goal to recruit, hire and register legitimate external experts who can help train and improve AI model on complex domains.
• Define technology stack, guide and review key architectural decisions.
• Hire exceptional individuals and mentor team members in reaching their career goals.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed