Software Development Manager, Discovery Services, IMDb Platform Engineering

Job summary

DESCRIPTION Lead the engineering team behind search, lists, and ranking for IMDb — the platform hundreds of millions of people use to find movies, shows, and talent. You'll set the technical direction and build the team as we turn these systems into an AI-powered discovery engine built on IMDb's structured data: titles, people, credits, and the relationships between them.

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
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• PREFERRED
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect
• describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their

Responsibilities

• You'll set the technical direction and build the team as we turn these systems into an AI-powered discovery engine built on IMDb's structured data: titles, people, credits, and the relationships between them.
• Own the full development life cycle of your team's services and manage complex, cross-team projects with significant customer and bottom-line impact.
• Partner with product and program managers to develop the strategy and roadmap that deliver discovery capabilities customers use.
• Work closely with senior engineers to shape the best technical design and approach for new development, and lead design reviews across the organization.
• Maintain operational excellence in the monitoring and operation of production services, balancing delivery velocity with reliability.
• Prioritize, plan, manage stakeholders, and track cross-team commitments.
• Hire, mentor, and retain engineers; own career development and performance management for your direct reports and build a team that can own areas independently without bottlenecking on you.
• A day in the life
• Your stakeholders span IMDb Consumer, IMDbPro, and Amazon teams that consume discovery APIs.
• You spend roughly half your time on people and half on technical problems.
• About the team
• Consumers include IMDb Consumer, IMDbPro, and partner and AI-assistant channels.

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