Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is looking for experienced Software Development Manager for a technology team within Alexa Search. Alexa Search is part of our ongoing Alexa Information efforts focused on reinventing information extraction and retrieval for a voice-forward, multi-modal future. We are looking for creative managers to help design, develop, and deploy systems that collect and process data at Web scale; create text and data derivatives; and develop novel algorithms that use these derivatives to improve access to and retrieval of these derivatives in the context of Alexa user experiences and other Amazon services.

Successful candidates will build and optimize scalable systems for processing and managing Web-scale repositories and will be involved in all stages of text processing and knowledge distillation, from collection, to processing and cleaning, to extraction and verification. In the process, they will collaborate closely with a team of Applied Scientists with expertise in specialized areas such as Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Search, and Machine Learning.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design of a new/existing systems.
· 3+ years of experience in designing and building multi-threaded and fault tolerant applications in Java or Scala.
· Experience with Big Data processing and cloud computing in AWS

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.