With Alexa becoming increasingly pervasive in homes, offices, cars and on the go, Alexa is playing a significant role in helping our customers capture their needs in the moment. In the Alexa Shopping kit team, we are working passionately to enable this vision by becoming an unified provider of customer experience for various shopping needs across all Alexa skills. By simplifying and exposing Shopping and commerce functionalities to skills across Amazon, we will help customers interact with trusted and familiar shopping experience. We will ensure they always get everything they need with the same experience, no matter how they shop through Alexa.
What you will do: This is a high growth opportunity in a greenfield area. As a Software Development Engineer, you will work on the architecture, algorithms and systems that breathe life into this vision. You will have the opportunity to contribute or develop deep expertise in the areas of distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, conversational technologies, user interfaces (including voice and natural user interfaces), data storage and data pipelines. You’ll be actively encouraged to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate on behalf of our customers. You will have an impact on the way customers experience shopping across a whole spectrum of user experiences and Alexa skills. You’ll also be able to look back and you were a key contributor to something special from its earliest stages and work in a startup environment in a large company. As a Software Development Engineer, you will collaborate with multiple Product Managers and engineers from partner teams across Amazon Retail, Alexa, Speech Recognition and a Research Sciences team.
What we are looking for: We are seeking a talented and experienced Software Development Engineer to design and develop the flexible experiences, machine learning models and distributed systems that will empower making this vision a reality. An ideal candidate will operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for the product. You will work with a team of talented engineers. You communicate effectively with multiple development, product management, and partner teams.
About the team
We want the best talent to join, grow, and stay in Alexa Shopping. We are a company of builders who bring varying backgrounds, ideas, and points of view to invent on behalf of our customers. Our diverse perspectives come from many sources including gender, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, professional/life experiences, and other identities. We believe that every Amazonian should feel comfortable sharing their unique perspectives. This is rooted in our leadership principles that guide our company, which requires of our leaders to seek diverse perspectives and lead with empathy.
Internal job description
Loop competencies
Basic qualifications
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- 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
About the team
We want the best talent to join, grow, and stay in Alexa Shopping. We are a company of builders who bring varying backgrounds, ideas, and points of view to invent on behalf of our customers. Our diverse perspectives come from many sources including gender, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, professional/life experiences, and other identities. We believe that every Amazonian should feel comfortable sharing their unique perspectives. This is rooted in our leadership principles that guide our company, which requires of our leaders to seek diverse perspectives and lead with empathy
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in technical product management, program management or engineering
- Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience owning roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.