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ID #41029779
State California
City Sunnyvale
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Amazon
Showed 2022-05-17
Date 2022-05-16
Deadline 2022-07-15
Category Internet engineering
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Software Development Engineer, Alexa Kitchen

California, Sunnyvale, 94085 Sunnyvale USA

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DESCRIPTION

Job summary Alexa is the Amazon cloud service that powers Echo family of devices, the groundbreaking new Amazon device designed around your voice. We believe voice is the next shift in human computer interaction. The Alexa Kitchen team uses natural language understanding, knowledge acquisition, analytical tooling, and continuous incremental improvement to answer our customers' questions. You will have an opportunity to impact the customer experience, architecture, design, and implementation of products used by people you know. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented senior-level software engineer with a track record of successfully delivering new features and products, solving hard problems, and learning new technologies quickly. Your job will be to work with a team of engineers and product managers to solve new problems in new ways. You'll also be developing engineering processes, and encouraging excellence within the team. Responsibilities:
  • Lead definition, design and implementation of software components, solution designs, tools, and tests
  • Will help to define and push for the best possible end-user experience
  • Contribute to team discussions around solution and component design as well as process improvement
  • Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
  • Work in an Agile/Scrum environment, participating in prioritization, estimation, and sprint planning

About the teamAlexa Kitchen's mission is to help customers stay inspired and informed about Food and help them get food to table daily.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
  • 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience designing and building large-scale systems
  • Experience supporting mission critical, 24x7 systems
  • Experience with multiple styles of Software Development Life Cycle
  • Excellent leadership, mentoring, verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience with search, A/B experimentation, data analysis, information retrieval, machine learning, distributed systems
  • Ability to work well with a diverse team people and be both highly motivated and motivating
  • Proven results-oriented person with a history of delivery
By submitting your application here, you can apply once to be considered for multiple Software Engineer openings across various Amazon teams. If you are successful in passing through the initial application review and assessment, you will be asked to submit your career and personal preferences so that our dedicated recruiters can match you to the right role based on these preferences.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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