DESCRIPTION

Join the team that brought you the Echo Show, a touch-screen enabled Alexa device that supports video calling, music, weather, and more! We’re just getting started, and we’d love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers. As a software engineer in the Alexa Devices team, you will help drive innovation by developing features that present innovative speech-backed visuals on our Echo Show, Echo Spot, and similar screened Alexa devices.
Specifically, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining new systems, partnering with other Amazon and third-party services and device teams as required. You will ensure that Alexa almost never drops her end of the conversation, delivering services that respond with minimal latency at Amazon scale. You may work on device frameworks, web services, APIs, large scale data infrastructure, and more. If being at the forefront of new innovation for Alexa sounds exciting, we’d love to talk to you!

Key job responsibilities
1. Own the high level design and development of features for Echo family of Devices (including new Device launches)
2. Produce high quality Device software that delights our customers
3. Mentor and train young engineers in the team to build quality software

A day in the life
1. Coding in C++/Java/Android
2. Code Reviews
3. Design documents – authoring and review
4. Working with partner teams to plan out new features
5. Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History

About the team
Alexa Device SetUp experiences team owns the Setup experiences like OutOfBoxExperience (OOBE), Device Settings and SystemTrays, for Headless and Multi-modal devices on a wide range of Echo devices

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
– Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
– Strong technical credentials and deep hands-on technical expertise building complex, highly scalable software asystems that have been successfully delivered to customers
– Development experience on mobile platforms such as Google Android
– Superior HW/SW design and architecture knowledge
– Graphics – UI Composition and Fluidity for mobile applications
– Experience with Amazon Web Services, Alexa Skills development
– Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and proven methodologies for the full software development process (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations