Description

Do you want to help millions of customers use Alexa to simplify their daily lives?

The Alexa Routines team is building powerful features that allow customers to customize how Alexa works for them and perform recurring tasks automatically. Our team focuses on learning behaviors and proactively offering ready-made Routines to customers, helping them get the most out of their Alexa devices.

You will work closely with engineering and product stakeholders to build features that customers love. You will have the opportunity to work with Generative AI and other state of the art technologies to help build personalization and recommendation solutions from the ground up.

Key job responsibilities

Your responsibilities on our our team will include:

• Collaborate with Product and UX to translate product requirements into technical requirements.

• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems operating at Amazon scale.

• Design and build customer facing features in the Alexa Mobile App

• Gain expertise in cutting-edge technologies and algorithms, including Generative AI.

• Mentor junior engineers through feedback and insightful code reviews.

• Define and implement best practices on the team.

• Maintain and improve existing systems to keep them up-to-date with the latest best practices.

A day in the life

On a given day, you will meet with your teammates to make important decisions about your services architectures and team's technical direction. You will meet with partner teams to align on technical details ensure that the right progress is being made towards shared goals. You will write code to build new features, both for cloud side applications as well as for the Alexa Mobile App. You will see direct feedback from our customers, allowing you to advocate on their behalf and bring your own ideas to the team about what we should build next.

About the team

Our team is highly collaborative and actively seeks out a wide range of opinions to build the best features for our customers.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.