Software Development Engineer, Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Skills Kit

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Development Engineer in the Alexa AI Developer Tech team. This role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge technology, including generative AI, while building software that enhances user experiences across millions of devices. Collaborate with a close-knit team to influence architectural decisions and drive best practices in software development. Your contributions will directly impact the design and implementation of innovative solutions, making this an exciting opportunity for those passionate about technology and its potential to transform everyday life.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in design patterns, reliability, and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Build software for millions of Alexa-enabled devices using AI technologies.
• Drive engineering best practices and influence team consensus.

Skills

Software Development

Architecture Design

Programming Languages

AI Technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Testing Frameworks

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Alexa AI Developer Tech

Alexa+ is our next-generation assistant powered by generative AI. Alexa+ is more conversational, smarter, personalized, and gets things done.

Our goal is make Alexa+ an instantly familiar personal assistant that is always ready to help or entertain on any device. At the core of this vision is 'Alexa AI Developer Tech', a close-knit team that’s dedicated to providing software developers with the tools, primitives, and services they need to easily create engaging customer experiences that expand the wealth of information, products and services available on Alexa+.

Interested in Alexa+? Ever wonder what's involved in enabling third-party partners to create experiences for Alexa+? Then come help us build the AI-native SDKs that partners use every day to expand Alexa+ capabilities!

You will join a growing organization working on top technology using Generative AI and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day, by people you know.

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


Key job responsibilities
Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices using latest AI technologies, including LLMs.

Taking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.
Understanding the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.

Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.
When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path, building consensus.

You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices

A day in the life
A typical day will start with a morning huddle to catch up on what you and your team worked on the previous day. This is usually followed by some white-board design discussions on the problems the team is working on, with afternoon mostly spent on project design and implementation work with a heavy dose of code reviews from and for your team along the way. We are a fun, close knit team where everyone is ready to roll their sleeves and help each other out, push boundaries and have fun doing it!



About the team
Alexa AI Developer Tech is an organization within Alexa on a mission to empower developers to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa more natural, accurate, conversational, and personalized.

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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