Alexa is our next-generation AI-powered digital assistant. Alexa is designed to be more conversational intelligent and personalized than previous versions - helping you get things done with ease. Whether its entertainment learning organization summarization or open-ended conversation Alexa can assist. Alexa can also manage and protect your smart home make reservations discover new content and help you shop online.
Were looking for entrepreneurs who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers demonstrate a high degree of product ownership and want to have fun while they make history. Customers have now purchased over half a billion Alexa-enabled devices. Join us as we innovate at scale to shape the future of human-computer interaction on mobile and web!
Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design development and maintenance of scalable performant and secure web applications powered by LLMs.
- Build and maintain end-to-end features across the front-end and back-end.
- Design intuitive and responsive user interfaces to enable seamless LLM interaction.
- Architect scalable and modular systems with a focus on performance maintainability and extensibility.
- Define and enforce engineering best practices (code quality testing CI/CD logging observability).
- Mentor and guide other engineers through code reviews technical discussions and pair programming.
- Lead/Implement client and server-side performance optimizations for large-scale usage.
- Stay up to date with evolving LLM capabilities frontend frameworks and backend technologies.
- Propose and prototype new ideas to improve user experience model utilization or internal tooling.
- Partner with product managers and designers to shape the product roadmap.
- Translate high-level product ideas into clear technical specifications and deliverables.
- Drive alignment on architectural decisions security and long-term technical vision.
A day in the life
Drive high-level system design establish long-term architectural roadmaps and define the technical strategy in alignment with product and business goals. Collaborate across teams to ensure alignment and consistency in implementation. Deeply understand the business domain to proactively propose scalable customer-centric solutions. Contribute to product development by analyzing and scoping requirements providing technical input early in the lifecycle. Lead by example through active mentorship thorough code reviews and writing clean maintainable and high-quality code that sets the standard for the team.
About the team
You will operate in a responsive flexible and collaborative environment leading an agile development team that embraces modern best practices in software engineering. In this role you will collaborate closely with Principle Engineers/Senior Engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements assess technical feasibility and deliver robust solutions that shape the next generation of our products. Your contributions will be instrumental in driving innovation and ensuring alignment between engineering and product strategy.
- 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
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- 4 years of full stack development experience
- 4 years of experience with modern web application development technologies and frameworks (e.g. React GraphQL TailwindCSS etc) and responsive design.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.