Amazon Software Development Engineer Alexa Smart Properties 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

401775705

As a SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying solutions for Alexa Smart Properties and enterprise customers world-wide customer. In this, you will collaborate closely with Alexa/AWS/Solution Architects and many other teams and functions to influence our overall strategy and define the team’s road map. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will take a pragmatic and iterative approach to building software: You will simplify and get things done while experimenting on rapid iterations on the new concepts. You will need to be a focused and thoughtful leader of your team who works effectively with external and internal partners.A day in the life
- Design and develop micro-services to create new core software services.
- Build service architectures that have rock solid availability and performance.
We work on expanding Alexa's use case by creating features and core Alexa system functionality that allows Alexa to be use by business enterprises (as opposed to personal homes). You will be writing code to deliver these pieces of functionality.Vancouver, BC, CAN

- 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