Software Development Engineer - Alexa Applied Modeling & Data Science

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Interested in Amazon Echo? We're building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Echo and other Amazon products and services. Come join us!

The Applied Modeling and Data Science team is seeking a talented, self-directed Software Development Engineer to build a world class data & data analytics platform and design and build spoken language understanding scalable, self-serve analytics tools for use by the Alexa Machine Learning organization. The SDE should provide inventive, simple solutions to complex problems and have a passion for language and language data analysis.
You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these features, drive the system architecture, spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product, and working with the engineering lead on the team to execute our technical vision.

The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
Responsibilities:
· Responsible for the development and maintenance of key system features
· Will work with other team members (Data Scientists, Research Scientists, SDEs, BIEs, and Product Managers) to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
· Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against tight schedules.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
· 3+ years of industry experience.
· 3 years of programming in one or more object-oriented languages like Java/Python/C#/Ruby/Objective C/C++
· Experience building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems for commercial online services.