Software Development Engineer II, Alexa AI Developer Tech

Alexa is our next-generation assistant powered by generative AI. Alexa is more conversational smarter and personalized and it gets things done.

Our goal is make Alexa an instantly familiar personal assistant that is always ready to help or entertain on any device. Alexa AI Developer Tech is at the core of this vision. It is a close-knit 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.

Interested in Alexa Ever wonder whats involved in enabling third-party partners to create experiences for Alexa Then come help us build the AI-native experiences that partners use every day to expand Alexa capabilities!

You will join a growing organization working on top technology using Generative AI and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design architecture and implementation of products used every day by people you know.

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


Key job responsibilities
Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices and Alexa-enabled Devices using the latest AI technologies including LLMs.
Taking a long-term view of architecture proactively fixing deficiencies and proposing larger projects.
Understanding the business impact of your systems and showing good judgment when making technical trade-offs.
Driving engineering best practices (e.g. Operational Excellence Security Quality etc.) and setting standards.
When confronted with discordant views finding the best way forward and influencing others to follow that path building consensus.
Contributing to the professional development of colleagues improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.

About the team
Alexa AI Developer Tech is an organization within Alexa on a mission to empower developers to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa more natural accurate conversational and personalized.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 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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