DESCRIPTION

“Alexa, find me a job where I can create and innovate.” Yes, Alexa can make your wishes come true!
On the Alexa Built In team, you’ll build software to enable Alexa’s capabilities everywhere – in speakers, appliances, wearables, robots, and more! We’re working with industry leaders to seamlessly integrate Alexa into any and all devices. It’s awesome, and will change the way millions of people interact with their homes, cars and even their workplace.

If you’re passionate about greenfield engineering opportunities and love to solve problems that have never been encountered before – this is the job for you. If you have an insatiable thirst to learn – you’ll absolutely love this job. Imagine working together with other teams to architect solutions that define how customers interact with Alexa. You’ll own your work from design to deployment, evangelize it and ensure its operational excellence in production.
Become a builder, an innovator, and game changer by joining the ABI team. Let’s build something special, and have a ton of fun doing it!

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
– Define the strategy and roadmap for Alexa Built In team
– Hire and develop the industry’s best talent to build a strong and well-balanced team
– Work across the organization to deliver the best in-class Alexa experience for our customers while balancing critical business objectives
– Build the next generation systems for enabling Alexa on devices portfolio to allow rapid innovation in the Voice Experience
– Build device and cloud side software that easily extends to meet the high growth of Amazon’s ABI business and capabilities
– Own and operate mission critical services that are highly reliable and extremely low latency

A day in the life
Basically you get to lead in a fast-paced environment, guiding a team of smart software engineers to architect and develop the right technical solutions to meet the needs of the business. You will be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle: defining, prioritizing, designing, building, and testing new features. We care about both delighting customers and high quality software; we don’t sacrifice one for the other. We’re looking for someone with a demonstrated track record of hiring and leading teams of software development engineers to build and run highly-scalable, global software solutions.

About the team
ABI Organization is chartered to enable Alexa outside of Amazon manufactured devices. Our team is responsible for building and evolving Alexa experience in all of partner devices. This is an opportunity to provide leadership and drive programs to build an innovative Alexa experience impacting billions of customers and devices. We started the site in 2022 and have matured the team to launch strategically important and technically challenging projects. We are now looking to contribute to cutting edge innovations in Alexa and bring that to 3P devices.

The teams in India will independently own and deliver end to end products for partners and Alexa customers. The India team will consist of Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, Senior Engineers, QA Engineers and Software Development Managers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 7+ years of engineering experience
– 3+ years of engineering team management experience
– 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
– Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
– Experience partnering with product or program management teams
– Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
– Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers