Software Development Engineer, Alexa Routines

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

5h • $165,200 - $223,600 • Onsite

About The Position

The Alexa Routines team is building innovative features that allow customers to customize how Alexa works for them and perform recurring tasks automatically. Our team focuses on learning behaviors and proactively offering ready-made Routines to customers, helping them get the most out of their Alexa devices. You will work closely with engineering and product stakeholders to build features that customers love. You will have the opportunity to work with Generative AI and other state of the art technologies to help build personalization and recommendation solutions from the ground up.

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
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

• Collaborate with Product and UX to translate product requirements into technical requirements.
• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems operating at Amazon scale.
• Design and build customer facing features in the Alexa Mobile App
• Gain expertise in innovative technologies and algorithms, including Generative AI.
• Mentor junior engineers through feedback and insightful code reviews.
• Define and implement best practices on the team.
• Maintain and improve existing systems to keep them up-to-date with the latest 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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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