Software Development Engineer, Alexa International Tech

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

1d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Alexa International is focused on leveraging modern technologies to create new product opportunities that deliver the future of voice-driven AI to our customers and partners. We are a team of builders that work passionately to apply breakthrough technologies to solve real-world challenges that will transform the Alexa experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet for our customers worldwide. You will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day, by people all over the world.

Requirements

• 5+ 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

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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Build low-latency services that is optimized for performance to meet the Alexa based customer interaction expectations.
• Own full stack software development and contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle, including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations.
• Deal with ambiguity in solving a complex problem space that has not been tackled at this scale before.
• Work with other engineering teams who are aligned towards the same goal with many opportunities for cross-team influence, architecture, and collaboration.
• Be a key contributor in setting the teams technical direction, best practices, and plan for the years ahead

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior