Software Development Engineer, Alexa Excellence

Amazon Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Alexa Excellence Team in Bangalore/Chennai is seeking a talented software engineer to help revolutionize our voice-forward experience. You will have an opportunity to influence design, architecture, and implementation of mission-critical products used every day by customers.

We value innovation, collaboration, and customer obsession, and you will contribute to scalable, reliable systems in a fast-growing environment while working with leading voice technologies.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• 3+ years of Video Games Industry experience (supporting title development, release, or Live Ops).
• Experience programming with at least one programming language.

Skills

Software development

Design / architecture

Video game industry experience

Programming language experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Are you customer-obsessed and interested in Speech and Language Understanding? If so, the Alexa Excellence Team in Bangalore/Chennai is looking for a talented engineer to help revolutionize our voice-forward experience. Alexa is the Amazon service that powers the Echo family of devices, Fire TV, tablets, third party Alexa providers, and cars. We believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with technology across many domains; we are inventing the future.

The Alexa Excellence team operates programs to increase the stability and performance of all Alexa customer experiences. We serve as a center of excellence by providing leadership, best practices, tools, research, audit reports, support and education to all Alexa teams. Our customers are internal developers across Alexa teams and beyond, and our tools and program guidelines are critical to the development, testing, release and maintenance of any Alexa features. We ensure that Alexa is always ready.

You’ve found the right team if you are a passionate software engineer with experience building innovative, mission critical applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of latest products used every day, by people you know.

We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!

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
• 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) 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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