Sr SDE, Amazon Kids+, Child First Experiences

Join a team on a mission to make Kids every childs favorite destination to independently create explore and learn and give parents the confidence to let them. As a Sr SDE on the Kids Child-First Experiences team youll shape the voice-first and cross-surface experiences that millions of kids ages 312 interact with every day from AI-powered storytelling adventures to conversational content discovery powered by Alexa.

In this role youll be the technical anchor for building premium subscription-defining experiences that span Echo devices tablets and web experiences compelling enough to make Kids a must-have for tens of millions of families worldwide. Youll drive the architecture and delivery of child-adapted UIs and voice interactions navigate the unique intersection of delight and compliance in child-directed design.


Key job responsibilities
1. Own and innovate on voice-first (VUI) and cross-surface (GUI/native/web) experiences for features like Stories with Alexa and Create Your Own Adventure
2. Lead cross-stack delivery across device app and server-driven CX implementations making smart tradeoffs that balance child experience legal constraints and platform capabilities
3. Partner across Amazon Kids and Alexa Kids groups to build flagship integrations and conversational content discovery mechanisms
4. Scale the high bar for CX execution across the Kids engineering organization mentoring teams on child-adaptation best practices


A day in the life
No two days look exactly the same in this role but most of your time is spent doing what great engineers do best: writing code building systems and increasingly directing AI-assisted development to ship high-quality experiences faster. The remaining time is spent shaping the technical direction of the team mentoring engineers across multiple partner teams and influencing how the broader organization builds for kids.

Your immediate mission focuses on our high-impact voice-driven creation experience for kids. Day-to-day youll collaborate closely with product managers UX designers and engineers across multiple Alexa and central AI teams.

- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4 years of mass-market consumer web / mobile products experience
- Experience building scalable distributed front-end experiences
- Experience designing mobile web or on-device mobile applications
- Experience with voice interface natural language or multimodal design
- 5 years of end to end product delivery experience
- Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications or experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience participating in or leading technical collaborations and creating alignment across diverse groups (e.g. hardware engineering software engineering program management)
- Experience mentoring or training the engineering community on complex technical issues
- Experience building or integrating with third-party skill or content platforms in a voice-first context
- Experience building products for children or other regulated audiences with an understanding of the design legal and compliance considerations involved (e.g. COPPA age-appropriate UI patterns parental controls)
- Demonstrated ability to balance user delight with safety and trust requirements in product design and implementation

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually