Interested in Amazon Echo? Come work on it. Alexa is the Amazon cloud service that powers Echo, the groundbreaking Amazon device designed around your voice. We are building large scale distributed systems to serve growing needs of Kindle customers on Alexa and redefine Kindle books listening experience on Alexa enabled devices. Our team works backwards from customers by understanding their needs to design and implement solutions that addresses their current needs and scales for future. We are inventing the future, come join us. We are looking for Software Development Engineers who can expand their knowledge of server and client software systems to deliver product that will have huge impact on Kindle Customers' experience on Alexa. We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineers who have experience building mission-critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have the opportunity to make an impact to the design, architecture, and implementation
· 10+ years of experience building production software · A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals · Deftness at object-oriented design and systems architecture · Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Objective C, Swift) and open-source technologies · Experience building large scale distributed systems to efficiently process data runtime and instantly make decisions. · Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts