Senior Software Development Engineer - Alexa Shopping

Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Location: Seattle
Posted on: September 17, 2020

Job Description:

Job ID: 1268150 | Amazon.com Services LLC

At Alexa Shopping, we strive to enable shopping in the moment whether at home in the kitchen, watching TV, on the go on your smartphone or in the car. We allow customers to instantly order whatever they need, by simply interacting with their device on hand, such as Amazon Echo family of devices or smartphone. Our Services allow you to shop, no matter where you are or what you are doing, you can go from 'I want that' to 'that's on the way' in a matter of seconds.

Alexa Shopping is looking for a passionate, results-oriented, inventive software developer to join our team in Seattle. You will be part of a team with strategic impact in the Alexa Shopping business, designing and implementing new software inventions and simplifications in the spoken language understanding domain. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, understand the artificial intelligence space, and will help us delivering key features to keep delighting our customers. This will require innovation and invention in how we detect, resolve, measure, and automate customer request routing accuracy. This requires delivering at Amazon scale where we must deliver solutions that will work in every language and locale for any customer globally across any Alexa device or application.

As software developer in Amazon, you are expected to have technical ownership of you designs and services and influence good coding practices among your peers. Responsibilities include design, code, review, test, fix, research, deploy and maintain services and code in Amazon cloud and production environments. Successful candidates will be strong developers who can prioritize well, develop at the highest standards in the industry, deal with ambiguous and non explored problem domains, and have a consistent track record of delivery.

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon engineers:

• Exhibits excellent judgment

• Hires and develops great people

• Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)

• Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology

• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team

• Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others

• Strong results orientation

• Thinks big

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS · 3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

· 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

· 4+ years of professional software development experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

• Have experience with Machine Learning and/or DNN models.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.

Keywords: Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle , Senior Software Development Engineer - Alexa Shopping, Other , Seattle, Washington