Software Development Engineer - II, ABI Engineering

Come join the team behind Alexa, building the speech AI data center and large language model solutions behind Amazon Echo, Amazon products, services for 44 countries. You can help us invent the future.
As a member of our team, you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features. You will have a significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, driving the system architecture, and spearheading best practices to enable a superior product.
You will work among a team with opportunities to shape our products and lead the charge as we play a major role in the evolution of Alexa. Your time with us will be impactful, and your vision, creativeness and engineering output adopted by teams across Amazon and beyond.
A successful candidate will have an established background in developing products, a strong technical ability, project management skills, solid communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and have a creative flair for achieving the impossible.
Key job responsibilities
As a developer on the team, you will:
* Design and build new capabilities that will be used by millions of people around the world
* Produce robust, efficient, and scalable code (primarily React)
* Build frameworks to enable both internal and external developers to create high-quality features, devices, and experiences
* Discover new approaches to software challenges
About the team
Our vision is to make customers’ lives at home easier and more convenient by connecting every home appliance to Alexa.
You will get a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue learning. You will build software that will materially improve people’s lives.
The changes we make, improves the speed and reliability experienced by end customers when interacting with Alexa devices, and simplifies experience for developers and rest of Alexa by abstracting the connection management from them. This is a highly visible role to get in the inception phase, build new features, and operate a tier-1 Cloud Service. The ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity that Alexa and Cloud represent, and is passionate about delivering high-quality services in a hyper-growth environment.
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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