Software Development Engineer II, Alexa Multimodal Initiatives, Alexa Devices

Join the team that brought you the Echo Show a touch-screen enabled Alexa device that supports video calling music weather and more! Our Echo Software team works on not only the Echo Show but other high-profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV Kindle and the Echo family of devices. Were just getting started and wed love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers. As a senior software engineer in the Alexa Devices team you will help drive innovation by developing features that present innovative speech-backed visuals on our Echo Show Echo Spot and similar screened Alexa devices.
Specifically you will be responsible for developing and maintaining new systems partnering with other Amazon and third-party services and device teams as required. You will ensure that Alexa almost never drops her end of the conversation delivering services that respond with minimal latency at Amazon scale. You may work on device frameworks web services APIs large scale data infrastructure and more. If being at the forefront of new innovation for Alexa sounds exciting wed love to talk to you!

Key job responsibilities
Join the team that brought you the Echo Show a touch-screen enabled Alexa device that supports video calling music weather and more! Our Echo Software team works on not only the Echo Show but other high-profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV Kindle and the Echo family of devices. Were just getting started and wed love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers.

You dont need any experience in those specific technologies just an enthusiasm to build cutting edge software particularly around user interfaces cross-device APIs or cloud-based services. If this sounds appealing to you please contact us and wed love to chat!

If you join us your opportunities will include:
Invent a novel delightful Android-based experience for our customers.
Collaborate with UX and Product owners to define customer experience and product direction.
Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.

A day in the life
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining new systems partnering with other Amazon and third-party services and device teams as required. You will ensure that Alexa almost never drops her end of the conversation delivering services that respond with minimal latency at Amazon scale. You may work on device frameworks web services APIs large scale data infrastructure and more.

About the team
We are the team that brought you the Echo Show a touch-screen enabled Alexa device that supports video calling music weather and more! Our Echo Software team works on not only the Echo Show but other high-profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV Kindle and the Echo family of devices. Were just getting started and wed love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers

- 4 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 4 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

- 4 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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