Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Interested in Alexa? Passionate about creating high quality code for customer and third party developer facing features utilizing best practices? Come work on the Alexa Skills Kit team where we are building solutions for Alexa Skill Developers, helping to spread innovation around voice interface and all new possibilities around it!
We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented developers to innovate in building solutions as part of the Alexa Skills Kit that enables third party Skills developers to build voice experiences on the Alexa platform. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of next generation of Alexa Skill Kit.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Masters Degree in Computer Science
· Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object oriented design, data structures, algorithms, design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
· Deep knowledge of Linux
· Experience building complex web applications on distributed systems that have been successfully deployed for a large customer base.
· Experience with Agile Scrum, having served as a Scrum Master and delivered results.
· Application of advanced coding techniques, such as dependency injection.
· Proven experience with: writing design documents, leading code reviews, applying SCM, managing builds and managing releases
· Knowledge of important design patterns.
· Applying unit testing / TDD to reduce testing cycles and production support load.
· Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, write technical designs, and discuss product strategy.
· Experience mentoring and training the engineers on complex technical issues.
· Experience in working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative, simple solutions.
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
· Experience programming in at least one modern programming language such as Java