Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Interested in Alexa? Come work on it! We're building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Echo and other Amazon products and services. We're working hard, having fun, making history; come join us!

As a member of the team you will be responsible for driving scalability and optimizations across the teams in Alexa. This role offers strong ownership on development of services to empower Alexa to be the best AI in the world.

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 products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

* Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
* Development experience defining, developing and maintaining web service API's
* Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality
* Excellence in technical communications with both technical and non technical peers