Software Dev Manager Jobs in Seattle, WA (NOW HIRING)

Comtech LLC is a woman-owned small business focused on delivering end-to-end solutions and products. Since 1998, we have successfully serviced enterprises across the public and private sectors, and the Department of Defense. Our services span all aspects of business, providing a holistic approach for managing an organization.

Job Title : Software Development Manager - Video Home Page  Personalization

 Job Location : seattle, WA

Duration/Type : Direct hire-Full time

Salary  : Open, No constrain for right candidate.

Job description :

We're seeking a Software Development Manager to help lead the development of Personalization of the Video home page. This role is at the heart of the AV customer journey to find movies and TV shows to watch, with ownership of the technology that determines what to suggest to each customer right when they are looking for the next video to watch. Our mission is to eliminate the selection problem and reduce the customer work in discovering videos by placing at the top of the page the right content that the customer would like to watch at that time on that device i.e. building a personalized home page experience tailored to individual customer tastes. We do this by mining through hundreds of different recommendation strategies, historical customer streaming behavior and understanding customer-device-time of day relationships. Apart from the machine learning challenges on rich video data sets, we also deal with core engineering problems of delivering a low latency real time personalized home page experience, building a global solution and scaling to millions of Video customers worldwide.
We are looking for a talented manager who can contribute to our world-class engineering culture, who has a track record of delivering meaningful results for customers while simultaneously investing in each team member's career and overall skill set. Every engineer and manager has the opportunity to positively impact millions of customers, and you will be called on to identify and realize these opportunities.
We embrace the challenges of a fast paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to universal availability of video. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive can make a lasting impact on world-wide consumer entertainment.
The right candidate will have experience collaborating with an array of stakeholders, understanding and anticipating their needs based on business direction. You will also partner with teams at the leading edge of Machine Learning technology to provide the program clear technical direction and you will build and nurture a team of engineers in delivering enhancements in response to customer needs and behavior.
If you are ready to make an impact on a product that is used by millions of people around the world, including your own friends and family, join us!

Basic Qualifications:

BS degree or higher in CS (or related program) with 3+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience, and at least 2 years software development engineer management experience

Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated technical leadership

A deep understanding of software development and a proven track record of shipping high quality software on time

Experience with large scale web services and distributed systems

Experience in Agile/Scrum software development practices

Required Skills:

5+ years of experience managing a team of at least 6 software development engineers

Masters degree in CS or related field

Expects and sparks innovation of her/his team

A track record of innovating in Machine Learning algorithms and applications.

Experience with scalable data processing platforms and tools like Spark, Hadoop

Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions

Deep hands-on technical expertise

Strong business and technical vision

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