SDE II, Alexa Connections

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 Connections we are inventing the future of global multimedia communications.

Its still Day One for the Alexa Connections 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/email make a call play announcements or drop in on your closest friends & family via Alexa devices or the Alexa app! The Alexa Connections 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 voice-controlled communications make Alexa even more useful and delight customers around the world. Youll be joining a team building LLM powered distributed systems and also building features in the Alexa app to enable world class highly scalable and user friendly systems as we aspire to connect people together through Alexa!

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 high-performance service requires exceptional technical expertise a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.

You should enjoy working on complex system software is customer-centric and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 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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