Software Development Engineer, Amazon Alexa (Cloud Services)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Alexa is the Amazon cloud service that powers Echo, the groundbreaking new Amazon device designed around your voice. We believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with technology across many domains and are looking for people that will help us shape the future of Alexa.

The Role:
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help define and implement features that will drive customer engagement for Alexa. As a Software Development Engineer in the team, you will define software architecture to support this vision and guide a team of developers to implement it with you. You will work closely with your product and development counterparts to make sure we incorporate customer input into our new service and define requirements to meet technical options. In addition, you will coordinate software development across multiple teams, ensuring our service and other Amazon services are designed to work in conjunction. You will have a unique opportunity to define our system, architecture and product, turning a vision into a live product.
We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications. You will have an opportunity to make a critical impact on the design and architecture of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.

Key Responsibilities:
· Be responsible for the architecture of software solutions, determining current limitations and compatibility between subsystems, selection of new concepts and methodology, and development of core systems/components.
· Lead coding and software development of a complex, cross-functional, customer facing program.
· Design and implement system architecture and underlying components. Establish design principles, select design patterns, and instill best practices for software development across multiple teams
· Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
· Work effectively with team members to gain consensus on technical decisions and execute them. We have a big task and collaboration with other development engineers is key for success.
· Ensure that appropriate software engineering practices are employed to deliver high quality results.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Excellent understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability for building Java-based cloud services using NoSQL, AWS
· Development experience defining, developing and maintaining web service API's
· Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
· Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
· Excellence in technical communications with both technical and non-technical peers
Lab126 is part of the Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies and is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
· 3+ year experience building successful production software systems
· 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.
· Experience in object oriented design skills
· Demonstrable leadership experience in driving large projects from concept to implementation
· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field