Software Development Engineer II, Alexa MultiModal Initiatives
Software Development Engineer II, Alexa MultiModal Initiatives
Join the team that brought you the Echo Show, a touch-screen enabled Alexa device that supports video calling, music, weather, and more! Our Echo Software team works on not only the Echo Show but other high‑profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV, Kindle, and the Echo family of devices. We’d love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers. If being at the forefront of new innovation for Alexa sounds exciting, we'd love to talk to you! You don’t need any experience in those specific technologies, just an enthusiasm to build state‑of‑the‑art software particularly around user interfaces, cross‑device APIs, or cloud‑based services.
Key Job Responsibilities
Developing and maintaining new systems, partnering with other Amazon and third‑party services and device teams as required. Ensure that Alexa almost never drops her end of the conversation, delivering services that respond with minimal latency at Amazon scale. Work on device frameworks, web services, APIs, large‑scale data infrastructure, and more.
Opportunities
- Invent a novel delightful Android‑based experience for our customers.
- Collaborate with UX and Product owners to define customer experience and product direction.
- Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic, team‑focused Agile/Scrum environment.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture of new and existing systems, experience with design patterns, reliability, and scaling
- 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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