Alexa+ is our next-generation assistant powered by generative AI. Alexa+ is more conversational, smarter, and personalized, and it gets things done.
Our goal is make Alexa+ an instantly familiar personal assistant that is always ready to help or entertain on any device. “Alexa AI Developer Tech” is at the core of this visiion. It is a close-knit team that’s dedicated to providing software developers with the tools, primitives, and services they need to easily create engaging customer experiences that expand the wealth of information, products, and services available on Alexa+.
Interested in Alexa+? Ever wonder what's involved in enabling third-party partners to create experiences for Alexa+? Then come help us build the AI-native experiences that partners use every day to expand Alexa+ capabilities!
You will join a growing organization working on top technology using Generative AI and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day by people you know.
We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!
Key job responsibilities
– Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices and Alexa-enabled Devices using the latest AI technologies, including LLMs.
– 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, finding the best way forward and influencing others to follow that path, building consensus.
– Contributing to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.
About the team
Alexa AI Developer Tech is an organization within Alexa on a mission to empower developers to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa more natural, accurate, conversational, and personalized.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ 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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