Software Development Engineer, Alexa Routines

Do you want to help millions of customers use Alexa to simplify their daily lives?

The Alexa Routines team is building innovative features that allow customers to customize how Alexa works for them and perform recurring tasks automatically. Our team focuses on learning behaviors and proactively offering ready-made Routines to customers, helping them get the most out of their Alexa devices.

You will work closely with engineering and product stakeholders to build features that customers love. You will have the opportunity to work with Generative AI and other state of the art technologies to help build personalization and recommendation solutions from the ground up.

Key job responsibilities

Your responsibilities on our our team will include

• Collaborate with Product and UX to translate product requirements into technical requirements.
• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems operating at Amazon scale.
• Design and build customer facing features in the Alexa Mobile App
• Gain expertise in innovative technologies and algorithms, including Generative AI.
• Mentor junior engineers through feedback and insightful code reviews.
• Define and implement best practices on the team.
• Maintain and improve existing systems to keep them up-to-date with the latest best practices.

A day in the life

On a given day, you will meet with your teammates to make important decisions about your services architectures and team's technical direction. You will meet with partner teams to align on technical details ensure that the right progress is being made towards shared goals. You will write code to build new features, both for cloud side applications as well as for the Alexa Mobile App. You will see direct feedback from our customers, allowing you to advocate on their behalf and bring your own ideas to the team about what we should build next.

About the team

Our team is highly collaborative and actively seeks out a wide range of opinions to build the best features for our customers.

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
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually