An opportunity to join experienced engineers working on Alexa at Amazon. We make Alexa more fun, personable, and, natural for our Customers. 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 to achieve results in a fast-paced environment
· University degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent · 6+ years industry experience as an engineer · Development experience in Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, or JavaScript· Masters or Ph.D degree in computer science. · Working experience as a technical lead or software architect. · Familiarity with the Alexa platform and Alexa Skills · Expertise in a variety of programming languages and open-source technologies · Understanding of designing cloud services for scalability, performance and reliability · Familiarity with Amazon Web Services · Ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly