Software Development Engineer, Alexa Personality Tech

Job description

DESCRIPTION

An opportunity to join experienced engineers in a newly formed Alexa team at Amazon.

We make Alexa more fun, personable, and, natural for our Customers.

You will work among an experienced engineering team with opportunities to lead the charge as we play a major role in the evolution of Alexa.

We advance the possibilities of voice-first experiences to help our Customers achieve more - would you like to join us?

Come join the team behind Alexa's Personality! Have you ever wondered about how she has opinions, tells jokes, and has responses to phrases like "Good Morning"? This is included in the charter of the Alexa Personality Tech teams. You can help us invent the future. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of product features. You will have influence on our overall strategy by helping define these core product features, driving the system architecture, and spearheading best practices to enable a superior product.

We are looking for passionate Software Engineers who have experience building innovative, applications that customers love. As a member of the team you will help with design, implementation and launch of many key product features. You will have influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.

The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. 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 fast paced environment where learning new concepts quickly is a must.

This position is located in Seattle, WA.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or Physics or related major
· 3+ years of hands on software development experience
· 2+ years of experience in OO programming languages (C,C++, JAVA or Python) and open-source technologies/frameworks (Linux, Spring, Guice, javax-rs)
· 2+ years of Test Driven Development or writing unit tests
· Engineering process experience with the Agile software development processes such as Scrum or Kanban