Alexa is the personal assistant and cloud service that powers the next generation of ambient computing devices 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.
Its 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. And now you can send a message make a call play announcements or drop in on your closest friends & family via Alexa devices or the Alexa app! The Alexa communications team is working to become the most natural way for people to communicate and the challenge ahead is significant. Were a high energy fast growth business excited to have the opportunity to define the future of voicecontrolled communications make Alexa even more useful and delight customers around the world.
This position is within 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 have influence on our product and technology strategy by helping define the product features refine system architecture and spearhead best practices that enable a quality product.
You will be successfully setting 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 highperformance service requires exceptional technical expertise a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and practical experience building largescale distributed systems.
You should enjoy working on complex system software is customercentric and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.
Note: This position is open in both Chennai and Bangalore locations. Feel free to discuss with the Recruiter or the Hiring Manager if you have any further questions.
5 years of noninternship 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
5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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