Software Development Manager Alexa Skills Kit

Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloud service that powers Echo the groundbreaking new Amazon device designed around your voice. Echo is always ready just ask for information music news weather and more. Skills are like apps for Alexa and provide a new channel for your content and services. Skills let customers use their voices to perform everyday tasks. Skill Builders publish skills in the Alexa Skills Store to reach and delight customers on hundreds of millions of Alexa devices.

Alexa Skill Builder Growth teams charter is to enable Skill Builders grow their business on Alexa. We do this by building publicly available intelligent web services and intuitive webbased tools that help Skill Builders drive discoverability of their skills enable natural and seamless interactions between skills and generate revenue. E.g. our namefree interaction (NFI) Toolkit makes it easier for customers to find and open skills without having to remember and say the skills name. NFI enables skills to compete for customers utterances by providing build and runtime signals. We are continuously experimenting with new ways for driving Skill Builder growth and the ones that succeed we make them publicly available. We are measurably making Alexa smarter and we need your help to define and build the next generation of capabilities as we shift focus towards trending Large Language Models(LLM).

Key job responsibilities
Interested in Amazon Echo Ever wonder whats involved in enabling millions of developers to create skills for Alexa Then come help us build the Alexa Skills Kit that developers use every day to expand Alexas skill set!

Our goal is make Alexa an instantly familiar personal assistant that is always ready to help or entertain on any device. At the core of this vision is Alexa Skills Developer Technologies a closeknit team thats dedicated to providing software developers with the tools primitives and services they need to easily create engaging customer experiences that expand the wealth of information products and services available on Alexa.

You will join a growing organization working on top technology using Large Language Models(LLM) and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design architecture and implementation of cutting edge products used every day by people you know.

Were working hard having fun and making history; come join us!

1. Be responsible for the end to end ownership of a technology team including setting the technical vision for developing our systems to serve Alexas needs.
2. Build and manage great software engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining software.
3. Be an advocate of engineering and operational excellence.
4. Establish a consistent project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software in rapid iterations.
5. Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision.
6. Be responsible for mentoring and developing engineers.
7. Represent the technical organization and evangelize the work to senior leadership.
8. Raise the bar on technical excellence show thought leadership and communicate well to different audiences.

About the team
Alexa Skills Kit or ASK is an organization within Alexa on a mission to empower skill builders to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa more natural accurate conversational and personalized. Skills are like apps for Alexa and provide a new channel for your content and services. Skills let customers use their voices to perform everyday tasks like checking the news listening to music playing a game and more. Organizations and individuals can publish skills in the Alexa Skills Store to reach and delight customers on hundreds of millions of Alexa devices.

7 years of engineering experience
3 years of engineering team management experience
8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

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