Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Properties

Are you looking for an opportunity to build an LLM based enterprisegrade highly available large scale software solution Does it excite you to find patterns and build generic composable software solutions to solve complex problems Are you looking for inventing newer and simpler ways of building solutions If so we are looking for you to fill a challenging position in Alexa Enterprise Products team.

As a Sr. SDE you will be responsible for designing developing testing and deploying solutions for Alexa Enterprise Products for worldwide customers. In this you will collaborate closely with Alexa teams and functions to influence our overall strategy and define the teams road map. You will also drive the system architecture spearhead best practices that enable a quality product and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems a strong technical ability great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Engineer for our Alexa Enterprise Product team youll design develop and implement innovative applications for our worldwide customers. Youll build new services and experiences pragmatically and iteratively simplifying complex problems and delivering efficient solutions.

Youll provide technical leadership overseeing system architecture and design while mentoring junior team members. Your expertise in computer science fundamentals and experience with largescale distributed systems will create reliable scalable and highperformance products.

Collaboration is key. Youll work closely with internal teams and external partners communicating effectively with technical and business stakeholders. Your strong communication skills will translate technical concepts to nontechnical team members and foster teamwork.

As a technical leader youll impact new feature direction and implementation. This role requires excellence a strong work ethic and adaptability in a fastpaced innovative environment.

Youll lead crossteam projects meet stakeholders drive execution and mentor junior engineers. Youll lead and architect Alexaenabled devices influencing Alexa ecosystem architecture and designing the future of Alexa 3P devices. Youll streamline team processes and deliver projects effectively.

A day in the life
You will be the technical leader responsible for design development and operations. You will brainstorm new ideas and work on forward looking architectures and design with Principal Engineers and other Senior Software Engineers. You will architect analyze design develop test and deploy software features and fix defects. You will participate and lead in sprint planning and daily scrum break down technical work identify technical blockers and navigate solutions. You will mentor team members. You will partner with your managers other technical leaders across the org to achieve a desired technical consensus. You will author docs to communicate vision proposals and designs.

About the team
Alexa Enterprise Products Team provides enterpriseready features making it easy to deploy integrate and manage Alexaenabled devices and experiences at scale for a variety of property types.

We work on expanding Alexas use case by creating features and core Alexa system functionality that allows Alexa to be use by enterprises (as opposed to personal homes). You will be writing code to deliver these pieces of functionality.

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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.