Amazon Software Development Engineer Alexa + Skills Kit 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

503760709

Alexa+ is our next-generation, AI-powered digital assistant. Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, intelligent, and personalized than previous versions - helping you get things done with ease. Whether it's entertainment, learning, organization, summarization, or open-ended conversation, Alexa+ can assist. She can also manage and protect your smart home, make reservations, discover new content, and help you shop online. At the core of Alexa+'s enhanced capabilities is a powerful large language model (LLM) architecture. Alexa+ is able to orchestrate across tens of thousands of services and devices - a first-of-its-kind achievement. This is enabled by "experts" - groups of systems, capabilities, APIs, and instructions that allow Alexa+ to accomplish specific customer tasks.Through these experts, Alexa+ can seamlessly control smart home devices, make reservations, explore entertainment content, order groceries and meals, set reminders, and much more. The Alexa Skill Build Platform team's charter is to enable internal and external partners to build exceptional Alexa+ experiences by managing the lifecycle of these experts.
Key job responsibilities* Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices using latest fast moving technologies including Large Language Models* Taking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.* Understanding the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.* Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.* When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path, building consensus.* You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practicesA day in the lifeKey job responsibilitiesTaking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.
When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path, building consensus.
You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices

- 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