Sr. Software Development Engineer, Alexa Communications
Alexa is the personal assistant and cloud service that powers the next generation of ambient computing devices, designed around your voice. We believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with technology across many domains. At Alexa Communications, we are inventing the future of global, multimedia communications.
It’s still Day One for the Alexa Communications team – we have a lot to innovate and build to make communication through Alexa devices a magical experience. The Alexa communications team is working to become the most natural way for people to communicate, and the challenge ahead is significant. We're a high energy, fast growth business excited to define the future of voice-controlled communications, make Alexa even more useful, and delight customers around the world.
This position is within the Alexa Communications team which develops core software components for communication experiences across various platforms. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with domain experts and software engineers, and deliver key Alexa Communications features and use cases.
Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the engineering team, you will influence our product and technology strategy by helping define product features, refine system architecture, and spearhead best practices that enable a quality product.
You will successfully set up the architecture foundation for the next phase of the product and beyond. A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating a reliable, scalable, and high-performance service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
You should enjoy working on complex system software, be customer-centric, and feel strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
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