Amazon Software Dev Engineer Alexa Audio Playback Experience - Tooling 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

604452966

With a collaborative and inclusive culture, this team values diverse perspectives and fosters an environment where everyone can contribute their unique expertise. You'll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact on Alexa's audio quality, working alongside talented peers who share a passion for pushing the boundaries of voice technology. You'll learn from mentors and contribute your unique perspective to cross-functional projects. We believe diverse teams drive innovation, so we're looking for eager learners with a foundation in Java and problem-solving skills. You'll gain hands-on experience with distributed systems, CI/CD, and data-driven optimization.Desired Strengths:
- Proven skills in software design, engineering, and building distributed systems at scale
- Experienced with modern dev practices like agile, CI/CD, cloud computing, containers etc.
- Ability to think strategically, break down complex problems, and deliver innovative solutions- Entrepreneurial mindset eager to blaze new trails and shape the voice entertainment spaceKey job responsibilities
- Incorporate best practices, produce secure, testable, maintainable, and extensible code and perform peer code reviews- Develop highly scalable and robust backend systems to power Alexa's entertainment offerings
- Provide technical leadership, set architectural direction, and make strategic decisions- Participate in the hiring process as well as mentor others - improving their skills, their knowledge of your software, and their ability to get things done
- Continuously enhance existing products
A day in the life
Design, implement, and deliver software in ambiguous and complex problem spacesInfluence the technology decisions that will drive future products and features that directly affect our growth in this critical space

- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development 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