Software Development Engineer, Alexa Global Quality

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to enhancing Alexa's capabilities across 44 countries. As a Software Development Engineer, you'll lead the charge in developing innovative features and solutions that shape the future of voice AI. Your role will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams, mentoring fellow engineers, and driving best practices in a fast-paced Agile environment. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic organization, where your creativity and technical expertise will be pivotal in delivering exceptional products that redefine user experiences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with design patterns and system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical designs for complex problems.
• Mentor engineers and solve design challenges.

Skills

Software Development

Project Management

Communication Skills

Agile/Scrum

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Alexa Global Quality

Come join the team behind Alexa, building the speech AI data center and large language model solutions behind Amazon Echo, Amazon products, services for 44 countries. You can help us invent the future.
As a member of our team, you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features. You will have a significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, driving the system architecture, and spearheading best practices to enable a superior product.

You will work among a team with opportunities to shape our products and lead the charge as we play a major role in the evolution of Alexa. Your time with us will be impactful, and your vision, creativeness and engineering output adopted by teams across Amazon and beyond.

A successful candidate will have an established background in developing products, a strong technical ability, project management skills, solid communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and have a creative flair for achieving the impossible.

Key job responsibilities
1. Develop the best technical design and approach to complex problems
2. Mentorship and knowledge share with engineers to solve complex design problems
3. Ownership of projects that operate cross-functionally with multiple engineering, design and product teams
4. Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against defined schedules and milestones

About the team
Our team is responsible for scaling Alexa to 44 countries. We encourage bold exploration of interactions and experiments that push innovation and use these learnings to bolster the foundation of best practice reference design patterns that foster a consistent, efficient, and familiar cross-product experience.

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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