An opportunity to join experienced engineers in a newly formed Alexa team at Amazon. This team's goal is to make Alexa more intelligent and provide our customers a great experience. We encourage bold experimentation that furthers innovation and use these learnings to bolster the foundation of best practice reference design patterns that foster a consistent, efficient, and familiar cross-product experience. You will work amongst an experienced engineering team with opportunities to lead the charge as we play a major role in the evolution of Alexa. Your time with us will be impactful - your vision, creativeness and engineering output adopted by teams across Amazon and beyond. We advance the possibilities of voice-first experiences to help our Customers achieve more - would you like to join us? A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing products, a strong technical ability, project management skills, solid communication skills, and a motivation
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent · · 3+ years industry experience as an engineer · · Developer experience in Java, C#, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, or JavaScript · · Experience owning engineering projects · · Experience building scalable infrastructure, REST interfaces, and distributed systems for high-throughput services· Familiarity with the Alexa platform and Alexa Skills · Demonstrated success in peer mentoring and leadership · · Expertise in a variety of programming languages and open-source technologies · · Experience in test driven software development and configuration