Sr. Software Development Manager: Customer Intelligence, Search and Recommendations Engineering (US remote!)

24 Apr 2024

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Description:

SUMMARY

GameStop is looking for a Sr. Software Development Manager (SSDM) to join and lead our Customer Intelligence, Search and Recommendations engineering group. This role will provide technical leadership and management for a team of experienced software engineers. This position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of software development, as well as demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing, and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment. Hands on experience with Search and Recommendations with an interest in graph databases and machine learning is essential.

What You'll Do

· Collaborate with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Business partners to enhance and build new capabilities for the Search and Recommendations platforms

· Work closely with business partners and customers to understand their needs and provide appropriate solutions. Provide project estimation and put together execution plans.

· Manage and develop the team, including hiring, goal setting, performance management, coaching, projects, and training. Work with team members to develop career paths and opportunities within the organization. Foster growth and skill acquisition/development for the team leads. Provide a creative environment where challenges are embraced and where difficult tasks are valued.

· Manage project scopes, timelines, dependencies, budget, and delivery. Allocate resources to projects based on priorities. Work with the team in the follow-up of the execution of the project.

· Be the point person for escalations and serve as the domain expert of the application/system. This is essential for on-call situations and escalations, as well as knowing the functionality and constraints of the system when defining product specifications.

What You'll Need

· 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.

· 5+ years in software engineering management roles.

· 3+ years in design and development of Search or Recommendations platforms

· Experience developing with AWS data technologies: Step Functions, Kinesis, Glue, Athena, Neptune, SageMaker, Redshift, EMR on EKS

· Demonstrated history of managing software development teams, especially managing ecommerce projects.

· Track record in building software development teams and coaching new leaders.

· Strong decision-making skills, and an understanding of where projects fit into the development strategy.

· Ability to operate independently given direction, set direction and bring ideas and solutions to issues raised.

Nice to Have:

· Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j, TigerGraph, or Amazon Neptune.

· Experience with Machine Learning using Amazon Sagemaker.

· Interest in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for driving deep insights on data

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  • ID: #39333316
  • State: Florida Pembrokepines 33027 Pembrokepines USA
  • City: Pembrokepines
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-04-24
  • Deadline: 2022-06-22
  • Category: Software/QA/DBA/etc