Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. 

It is considered one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The company has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", as well as the world's most valuable brand.

Amazon Development Centre South Africa is seeking a very strong technical leader to manage and grow an engineering team. This requires a thorough knowledge of what it takes to develop scalable, extensible technology, as well as how to structure and develop organizations. This presents a significant intellectual, technical and operational challenge. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the web service that is pioneering cloud computing by providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It gives any developer complete control of their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment. We are continuing to build the team in order to expand on our feature set and manage our rapidly increasing scale. We are expanding our capacity management initiatives to support high growth at large scales and create novel markets to support the computing needs of our customers. We are a diverse team which is is dedicated to supporting new members. We’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy mentoring more junior members. This includes both helping to onboard new hires, and supporting continued career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks that will help each team member to develop their skills, allowing them to take on more complex tasks as they progress. The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon EC2 presents and about web services in general. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality solutions in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. The position demands excellent technical skills and knowledge coupled with strong leadership, planning, and management abilities. Knowledge and experience with one or more development methodologies, and experience developing engineering process is required. Key responsibilities: · Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed project plans and schedules; manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team by defining, implementing and maintaining a coherent, progressive development strategy for our product line. · Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle · Delivery of quality applications on-time and on-budget · Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments · Management of departmental resources, staffing, and enhancing and maintaining a best- of-class engineering team · Evolution of the software engineering practice within the organization, including better reporting, tools, and evolution of development methodology · Work closely with the architects to develop the best technical design and approach for product development · Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology · Continue to build an effective development organization by driving the recruiting and hiring of senior level engineers, developing and managing the group, and conducting performance reviews of team members · Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts. · Develop and execute unit testing strategy and processes. · Drive and manage the bug triage process, represent development team in project meetings to ensure efficient testing and bug fixing process, and be an effective advocate for the development group · Report on status of product quality to management, customer support and product teams via rigorous execution of detailed plans and accurate reporting of test cases executed, bugs discovered, bugs fixed, etc.

· 5-10 years experience in Software development and 2-5 years as Development Manager · BS in Computer Science or equivalent · Experience with a programming language such as Java, C# or C/C++ · Excellent verbal and written communication skills · Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities. · Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment · Able to work in a diverse team

· Knowledge of MySQL. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Software Development Manager

Hexagon's PPM division software solutions help visualize, create and manage the lifecycle of facilities and structures of all complexities. With five decades of innovation and proven industry leadership, we have become the trusted partner for organizations challenged with the engineering, design, building and operation of facilities and structures across the globe. 

Headquartered in Madison, Alabama, USA, our 2,400 employees located on five continents serve customers in over 80 countries.

PPM is part of Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B; Hexagon.com), a global leader in sensor, software, and autonomous solutions whose technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

j5&nbsp;is a product that was originally developed in Cape Town and has a global footprint in a broad range of industries including oil, power, utilities, and more. Most of the Industrial Software Domains are covered by huge corporations like SAP and OSIsoft. We're competing to become the dominant market leader in the newest domain, Operations Execution. Our aim is to help Operations teams digitize the many complex operations performed in industrial plants, so that they can conduct them more safely and efficiently. We were recently acquired by Hexagon AB (a multi billion dollar company), who is now funding our product expansion to more comprehensively address the many different areas of this sector. We need brilliant programmers (and key allied skills) who can become part of the Cape Town team to meet this exciting challenge. We hope you can join us!

&nbsp;We pride ourselves on our friendly working environment, where people get on well, laugh lots and generally care for each other. We also have a relaxed dress code, and offer our staff the autonomy and tools they need to enjoy their career and be successful.

We are looking for outgoing, productive and highly talented developers,&nbsp;especially those who are strong in mathematics or who have a background in engineering, to join our talented team

Once you have settled into the team and become familiar with our product, people and processes, we shall help you to specialize in your areas of greatest strength and interest.&nbsp;&nbsp;

We're building modern enterprise web applications, using ES6, React/Redux and Reactive in our frontend, a mostly-Python application server with some server-side Nodejs &amp; several other packaged Java services. We support SQL Server, Postgres, and Oracle, and the major browsers. We have a mobile application that runs on Android, iOS and Windows, built using our normal web stack and Cordova.

Any experience in these skills would help you to get going quickly, but the main thing we’re looking for are great software developers who can learn fast – we'd love to hear about your relevant skills and experience that you would bring to the table.

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