Software Development Engineer, Alexa Communications Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Do you like the world of AI Voice Assistants? Do you like cutting edge technology? Alexa Communications is looking for exceptional software development engineers to build new innovative experiences, like Drop In, that will bring people closer together by having convenient, natural, and expressive conversations no matter where they are in the world. Want to help us build the next exciting communication feature?

As a member of this team, you will build dynamic, custom user experiences on Amazon Echo devices with a display (e.g. Echo Show) to deliver the next level Communication experiences. You will have the opportunity to work on the front or backend systems or both. With the power of the AWS cloud at your disposal, you will build reliable, scalable, and high performance services that leverage Content Management and Machine Learning systems to continuously adapt to customer behavior and deliver custom, relevant content.

Other key responsibilities include:

* Influence our overall strategy by helping define product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product
* Participate in all stages of the software development cycle, including designing and developing new system architecture and improvements
* Working with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility
* Focusing on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions
* Writing clean, maintainable code and performing peer code-reviews
* Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software