Alexa is the cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon Echo, a device designed around your voice. We believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with the home and is fundamental to enabling the dream of the smart home.
You will be part of a team that is delivering features that are highly anticipated and well received by our customers.
We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day in the home, by people you know.
The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
Responsibilities include:
* Leading development and maintenance of key system features. * Working with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility. * Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules.
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