SDE II, Alexa Customer Journeys

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of AI innovation, where you can make a significant impact on how customers interact with technology. This role offers the chance to work alongside passionate professionals, tackling complex challenges and creating applications that serve millions. You'll be involved in developing cutting-edge AI systems, contributing to a team that values innovation and efficiency. If you're eager to grow your skills and be part of a transformative journey in technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience and 2+ years in design or architecture.
• Experience with at least one programming language and software development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly efficient, testable, and quality code for AI systems.
• Collaborate with engineers and scientists to innovate and simplify processes.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Object-Oriented Programming

Application Scaling

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

We are re-inventing Alexa Routines with the latest LLMs to bring in GenAI powered capabilities into Routines. Come join us in our journey! You can help us invent the future. You will be at the forefront of AI innovation, shaping an assistant that fosters natural and productive interactions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with brilliant minds in the fields of AI, ML, and LLM. Partnering with software engineers, applied scientists, designers, and quality assurance, you will work horizontally across Alexa. Join a team doing innovative work. Make a direct impact to customers, show measurable success, and build with the latest artificial intelligence systems.

If you are holding out for an opportunity to:

1. Make a huge impact as an individual
2. Be part of a team of smart and passionate professionals who will challenge you to grow every day
3. Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in coding elegant and practical solutions
4. Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people
5. Work with artificial intelligence systems to deliver real experiences

And you are experienced with:

1. Writing highly efficient, testable, quality code written with Java, C++, or C# (or another excellent OO language)
2. Application scaling, resiliency, availability, and failover
3. Researching implementations to find the best possible experience for a customer
4. Taking ownership and doing whatever it takes to get the job done

And you constantly look for opportunities to:

1. Innovate, simplify, reduce waste, and increase efficiencies
2. Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions
3. Automate processes otherwise performed by humans
4. Learn from others and help grow those around you

...then we would love to chat!

About the team

Alexa Routines allows customers to configure automations of the form “if a specific event (trigger) happens, then execute one or more actions”. Alexa Routines Experience is our customer facing manifestation and is accessible in the Routines GUI in the Alexa Mobile App. We are in an early phase of a strategic revamp to offer Routines via voice by leveraging LLMs.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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