Description

We provide a unique opportunity to delight millions of customers by launching Alexa experiences on Mobile. A cornucopia of opportunities to grow your mobile skills in Android writing in Kotlin and Java. You will be empowered to help drive decisions and shape the next steps of making Alexa a world class assistant. You will be given a challenging area that will grow your career and make you feel accomplished. You will work with strong SDEs.

Key job responsibilities

Interested in Alexa on mobile?

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.

As a member of the team you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.

The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

A day in the life

• You will be writing code to bring new features to power various Alexa experiences.

• You will work with Product Managers, Technical Program Managers. Quality Assurance and Developers on a daily basis.

• You will support the software you created to ensure it is of high quality and reliable.

• You will work with sister teams and other teams at Amazon to build consensus and get alignment.

• You will enjoy great BBQ in team events. We are split between Austin and Seattle. Your choice!

About the team

The mission of the Alexa Assistant is to make Alexa the world’s best personal assistant by turning customer’s mobile devices into their most powerful, portable Echo. To accomplish our mission, we aim to develop new avenues to interact with Alexa, create an easy to integrate Alexa core capabilities and create unique experiences tailored to a mobile device.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.