Software Development Manager, AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

DESCRIPTION

We're a team within the Relational Database Service, one of the fastest growing businesses within AWS. We're looking for a seasoned, talented software engineering manager in Vancouver, Canada.

Our service provides managed, reliable, scalable, and highly available relational databases on demand. We minimize the effort required to maintain relational databases by automating administrative tasks like backup / restore, scaling CPU / RAM / storage and replication / failover for high availability, allowing our customers to spend their valuable time focused on building their businesses.

For more information about RDS, please visit http : / / aws.amazon.com / rds

About You

You have a passion for software development and are ready to help guide this team forward - you're comfortable with Windows technology and have strong experience writing code.

You can explain why various design patterns are both awesome and constraining, you've seen production code fail (and fixed) in spectacular ways - and learned from it.

You've come to the understanding that being passionate about an idea is different than taking it personally and believe that debate makes strong ideas stronger.

You've written and / or released lots of software, shipped products and contributed to platforms, tools, and modules. Having worked with several frameworks, designs and scaling models you understand the challenges involved with building big, distributed systems used by thousands of people every day - and relish them.

You love to learn new things and to grow.

Who are you? You're the new Software Development Manager joining us at RDS. We work hard, have fun, and make history - let's go play.

What You'll Do

• Hire, mentor and manage a team of software developers including their projects and performance
• Deliver project roadmap on time / in spec, communicating clearly with team, management, and stakeholders
• Work with other managers and team members to estimate effort and document scope / design
• Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process, and development discussions
• Distill and communicate technical concepts to the team and other stakeholders
• Argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Vancouver, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

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

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