Software Dev Engineer II, Alexa Speech Middleware
About The Position
Join the team that brought you the Echo Show and Echo Spot, touch-screen enabled Alexa devices that support video calling, music, weather, and more! Our Echo Software team works on not only the Echo Show but other high-profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV, Kindle, and the Echo family of devices. We’re just getting started, and we’d love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers. You don’t need any experience in those specific technologies, just an enthusiasm to build software particularly around user interfaces, cross-device APIs, or cloud-based services. If this sounds appealing to you, please contact us and we’d love to chat! In this role, you will: Invent new experiences for our customers. Collaborate with UX and Product owners to define customer experience and product direction. Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment. A day in the life In this role, you will build software experiences that millions of customers use daily. You will design and implement multi-modal applications that blend voice, touch, and visual interfaces into seamless experiences. You will own features end-to-end — from requirements through deployment — collaborating with UX and Product to navigate ambiguity and make tradeoff decisions. You will embrace AI-native development, leveraging Gen AI tools across the entire SDLC: design, code generation, testing, and deployment. You will drive engineering excellence through code reviews, operational best practices, and mentoring teammates — all in a fast-paced Agile environment where customer impact is immediate and the opportunity to invent is constant. About the team We are the team that brought Echo Show to millions of homes worldwide. Our engineers work in a collaborative and innovation-driven environment. We would love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers.
Requirements
- 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
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Nice To Haves
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Knowledge of Python and/or C++ programming
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques
Responsibilities
- Building software that enables integration of Alexa voice and multi-modal services into compelling applications that run on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices.
- Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and setting high standards by taking proactive measures to fix deficiencies and make continuous improvement of end product.
- Adopting, innovating, and driving efficiencies using Gen AI tools and practices throughout the software development lifecycle, from design and coding to testing and deployment.
- Contribute to the professional growth of team members through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and promoting engineering best practices
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
