Senior Software Development Engineer, Alexa International, Hamdans team
DESCRIPTION
Come join the team behind Alexa, building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Echo and other Amazon products and services. You can help us invent the future. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features. You will have a significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, driving the system architecture, and spearheading best practices to enable a superior product.
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 cutting edge 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.
We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Sr. Software Development Engineers (SDE) who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. The ideal candidate should commit to teamwork, and have strong communication skills to both business and technical partners.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop and launch core software applications and services
- Influence overall strategy by helping define product features, drive system architecture, and create/apply best practices
- Interact with cross-functional engineering teams outside of Alexa International
- Dive into and take ownership for critical design issues, and participate in design and code reviews
- Address all aspects of technology readiness and operational excellence
- Help mentor junior team members
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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.