Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Home

Amazon; Asti; In loco; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading tech company based in Italy is looking for a Software Development Engineer to enhance Smart Home experiences. You will drive the technical strategy while collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of programming experience and a deep understanding of system architecture. This role offers a chance to impact the future of smart homes while working in an inclusive and innovative environment.

Competenze

• 7+ years of programming with at least one software language.
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture.

Mansioni

• Drive the technical roadmap and strategy for Smart Home Automations.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to design innovative products.
• Build distributed storage and querying systems.

Conoscenze

Programming experience

Software development experience

Team leadership

Mentoring

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Descrizione del lavoro

Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Home

The Smart Home is the home of the future! The Smart Home market has shifted from early adopters to near-mass adoption, making high-tech homes no longer a novelty. Setting up a Smart Home used to be for "experts" only. Now it's mainstream! Come and join a team that is working on the future of the home!

Alexa Smart Home is an organization committed to bringing the next generation of Alexa Smart Home experiences to customers. As a part of the Smart Home Automations team, you will be responsible for building automations and high utility ambient experiences that anticipate customers’ needs and proactively takes the right smart home actions on their behalf to help them stay safe, save energy, save time, and stay comfortable! The Smart Home team is evolving Alexa into an intelligent, indispensable companion that helps customers get the most out of the technology in their home.

Your team is a part of the Smart Home Ambient Experience and Automations, and you will lead with design, implementation and launch of smart home connectivity features.

We are looking for passionate and talented engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical scalable services. In this role, you will lead and design the development of scalable services to enable customers to seamlessly connect their smart home devices into the Alexa ecosystem. This is a rapidly evolving space and we are looking for engineers who are comfortable working across design, product and tech to deliver best in class, re-usable, and scalable solutions to our customers.

We have a team full of exceptional engineers, great work-life balance, and a collaborative team culture. You will also have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want to use every day. Like the world of smart phones less than 10 years ago, this is a rare opportunity to have a giant impact on the way people live.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive the technical roadmap and strategy for Smart Home Automations and Ambient Experiences
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

A day in the life

You'll work closely with Product Managers, Program Managers, Designers, and other Engineers on a daily basis to design solutions, break down tasks, and collaborate with other developers to deliver high quality and valuable features for our customers. We own what we build and pride ourselves in ensuring the reliability, resilience, and performance of the products we deliver. You will regularly work with other teams to leverage capabilities and resources from ML models to deliver customer insights to external partners to incorporate energy-related data for the dashboard.

About the team

We operate as an autonomous and self organizing team. We advocate for our customers first in every aspect of our work, and make time to know and understand our customers. We make customer privacy and trust a primary concern in every decision. We build towards the right long term solution, and seek to eliminate tech debt. We seek to continuously improve, and will take action every sprint to improve. As a team, we embrace our diversity and foster an inclusive environment where we can all grow together.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ 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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