Want to join a startup team building new Alexa experiences for hospitality and
other out of home segments? Customers tell us they love the convenience of Alexa
and smart home, and we want to extend those experiences to shared living spaces
such as rentals, assisted living and more.
We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineer
who has experience building innovative applications that customers love. You
will build new services and experiences from ground up, will be a technical
leader and have impact tech design, architecture, and implementation of Alexa
features.
In this role, you will take a pragmatic and iterative approach to building
software: You will simplify and get things done while experimenting on rapid
iterations on the new concepts. You will need to be a focused and thoughtful
leader of your team who works effectively with external and internal partners.
Key job responsibilities
As a SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and
deploying solutions for Alexa Smart Properties and enterprise customers
world-wide customer. In this, you will collaborate closely with
Alexa/AWS/Solution Architects and many other teams and functions to influence
our overall strategy and define the team’s road map. You will also drive the
system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and
help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an
established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong
technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve
results in a fast paced environment.
A day in the life
Your role in this startup team will offer diverse opportunities for creating
innovative software. On a given day you might:
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Design and develop micro-services to create new core software services.
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Build service architectures that have rock solid availability and performance.
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Work closely with customers, product managers, cross-team developers to build
innovative software.
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Contribute to shaping up the learning habits of our youngest customers.
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Celebrate a successful rollout with a first-class engineering team!
About the team
Alexa Smart Properties provides property-ready features, making it easy to
deploy, integrate, and manage Alexa-enabled devices and experiences at scale for
a variety of property types.
We work on expanding Alexa's use case by creating features and core Alexa system
functionality that allows Alexa to be use by business enterprises (as opposed to
personal homes). You will be writing code to deliver these pieces of
functionality. Basic Qualifications: - 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications: - 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
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of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year.
Salary is based on a number of factors 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.
Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
