IVONA Software (an Amazon company) develops and delivers speech synthesis solutions that lead the Text-to-Speech market in natural voice quality, accuracy, and ease of use. We are a team of creative people who successfully combine passion and ambition in creating one of the best speech synthesizers in the world. We are constantly expanding our market reach and our voice and language portfolio.
This position is based at IVONA headquarters in Gdynia, Poland.
As a member of Web & E-commerce Team you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of new features for IVONA websites and E-commerce / automated sales. You will be involved in projects from concept to deployment and taking part in the complete project lifecycle. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable building high quality tools for automated sales.
The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance tools requires exceptional technical expertise and practical experience building large-scale systems.
Basic Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Sciences or related field.
- 4+ years of professional experience in software development.
- Proficiency in Java.
- Experience in building scalable, high performance web software or distributed systems.
- Understanding technical aspects of e-commerce and/or sales automation.
- Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Fluency in English.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in building complex web software that was visible on-line and/or was delivered to customers.
- Experience in building e-commerce tools.
- Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.