Senior Software Engineer, Alexa Devices
DESCRIPTION
We deliver software to millions of Alexa endpoints, and so our architecture and code have the ability to drive massive impact. We're looking to hire a technical leader who can not just deliver effectively on our goals, but drive the bar ever higher in terms of the team's quality and scale of contribution. User devices have fixed, and highly constrained resources, leading to fun technical challenges you won't face in most other software environments. A good tech lead will be a solid mentor, have the ability to take ownership of an entire application, drive continuous and positive change, and not just deal with ambiguity, but thrive in it.
Key job responsibilities
* Mentor & grow more junior engineers
* Champion clean, scalable architecture and good code
* Be able to disambiguate business requirements and convert them to technical requirements
* Own, and drive improvements to your team's development practices
* Deliver high quality code
* Be a great writer, both technically and non-technically
* Be hungry for new challenges and continuous learning
* Forge strong working relationships with peers and stakeholders outside the team
* Be able to be your own TPM when we don't have one to help
About the team
Our team owns a number of applications on Alexa devices, including both middleware and user-facing experiences. We operate mostly in the camera and sensing domains.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
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