Senior Software Development Manager,Amazon Alexa Skills Kit at Amazon
Senior Software Development Manager,Amazon Alexa Skills Kit Details
May 28, 2019, 10:28 a.m.
Software Development
Alexa Skills Team
Seattle, Washington
Engineers, Research Scientists
Do you want to change the world? Alexa and Echo are literally shaping the future of voice recognition and cloud-based content/services. Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloud service and the brain that powers Echo, the award-winning and groundbreaking new Amazon device designed around your voice. Echo connects to Alexa, to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, check sports scores or the weather, and more—instantly. It's hands-free, and always on. All you have to do is ask. To achieve this, we blend of a variety of disciplines (such as NLP, data mining, machine learning, big data, semantic web, graph stores, cloud computing) in an effort to understand our customers and the things they're excited about. To complement our complex algorithms and extensive data analyses, we create elevated and inspirational mobile and web features across the entire echo system. We use artificial intelligence, data mining and usability studies to develop new features, and we test them
· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field · 7+ years professional experience in software development and building production software systems · 5 years of experience managing software development teams, with hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience · Experience with Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis · Experience building customer and developer facing products and services · Experience with at least one modern programming language (Java, C/C++, C#) · Masters Degree/PhD