Software Development Engineer, Alexa Home Productivity

DESCRIPTIONAre you excited to work on a product which is used by millions of customers on a daily basis Come and join the Alexa Home Productivity Mobile team Our team owns several high volume features Alarms Timers Reminders Calendar Food and are looking for people that will help us shape the future of Alexa We are witnessing to a significant milestone in Alexa wherein these core features are becoming very personal while also bringing family members closer and allowing them to effectively coordinate with one another We are working to fundamentally innovate on Alexa s personal features to make them much smarter via an AI that powers the Family Assistant Part of the role is to Think Big not only about technology but about the possibilities We re focused on building the next generation of Alexa Mobile App for productivity features powered by Generative AI technology and are looking for talented developers You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience design architecture and implementation of a cutting edge mobile product used every day We are looking for passionate hard working software engineers who have experience building innovative mobile applications that customers love and will enhance their day to day capabilities You will work closely with your product and development counterparts to make sure we incorporate customer input into our new service and define requirements to meet technical options In addition you will collaborate on cross organizational projects ensuring our service and other Amazon services are designed to work in conjunction We re working hard having fun making history come join us Key job responsibilities - As a key member of the mobile 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 for 2024 and beyond - 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 - 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 A day in the life - You will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features drive the system architecture and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product About the team - You ll be part of a team that creates scalable solutions that make up the Mobile and Backend Architecture of the Alexa app Our mission is to make Alexa available anytime anywhere We re mobile experts who mentor and develop the best BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 - Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellencePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience - Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent