Software Development Engineer, Alexa International Tech

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DESCRIPTION :

Come join the team behind Alexa, building the speech AI data center and large language model solutions behind Amazon Echo, Amazon products, services for 44 countries. You can help us invent the future.

As a member of our team, you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features. You will have a significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, driving the system architecture, and spearheading best practices to enable a superior product.

You will work among a team with opportunities to shape our products and lead the charge as we play a major role in the evolution of Alexa. Your time with us will be impactful, and your vision, creativeness and engineering output adopted by teams across Amazon and beyond.

A successful candidate will have an established background in developing products, a strong technical ability, project management skills, solid communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and have a creative flair for achieving the impossible.

Key job responsibilities

1. Develop the best technical design and approach to complex problems

2. Mentorship and knowledge share with engineers to solve complex design problems

3. Ownership of projects that operate cross-functionally with multiple engineering, design and product teams

4. Work in an Agile / Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against defined schedules and milestones

About the team

Our team is responsible for scaling Alexa to 44 countries. We encourage bold exploration of interactions and experiments that push innovation and use these learnings to bolster the foundation of best practice reference design patterns that foster a consistent, efficient, and familiar cross-product experience.

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 :

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