Are you a Software Engineer with a passion for building great experiences? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a big impact in a company with a global impact and a startup culture?
Alexa is the Amazon cloud service that powers Echo, the groundbreaking Amazon device designed to respond to your voice commands and queries.
We’re building solutions and applications behind Alexa products and services to directly bring joy to people’s day to day lives.
We’re working hard, having fun, and making history. Come join our team!
Alexa Daily Essential (ADE) is working to make Alexa an indispensable assistant in the home. We build Alexa features such as Timers, Alarms, Reminders, Calendar, Notes and Recipe with the long-term vision to build an intelligent assistant in all household areas.
Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the Alexa Household Organizations mobile team you will be an innovator, playing a direct role in shaping and building products that customers love on top of Amazon's technology.
You will be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up like environment where agile development is embraced and innovation is encouraged.
At Amazon, every engineer has the opportunity to positively impact millions of customers and you will be called on to identify and realize these opportunities.
And, you will have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want to use every day.
A day in the life
As an SDE II on this team, you'll collaborate closely with stakeholders, converting business needs into software features.
You'll have the chance to lead full-stack development across mobile client and backend services. Working alongside SDEs from both our team and dependent teams, you'll tackle challenges that span multiple domains, driving cross-team initiatives.
Additionally, you'll take ownership of key aspects of our team's operations, playing a pivotal role in shaping and implementing best practices.
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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 2+ years of full stack development experience
- 1+ years of Apple platform development experience
- 1+ years of Android development experience
- Working knowledge of React Native + TypeScript is highly desirable