Software Development Engineer – Alexa Auto
Arlington (Arlington) IT development
Job description
DESCRIPTION
Alexa is the Amazon cloud service that powers Echo and other Amazon devices, which are designed around your voice. Whether in the kitchen with Echo, on the couch with Fire TV, customers expect Alexa to delight them with immediate and accurate answers to their questions. Alexa information domain is responsible for providing rich information to customers on a wide variety of topics including weather, sports, traffic, local businesses and movie show-times.
As a Software Development Engineer on our team, you will be working on building distributed and scalable services that power information verticals on Alexa. Our goal is to provide results that are not just accurate, but highly relevant. Since Alexa is primarily a voice powered assistant, end latencies are extremely important, and we strive to keep them low. You will have enormous opportunities to create impact by working on the design, architecture, and implementation of new and existing applications. You will have a chance to influence the product features and long term design by working with other engineers and product managers on the team, developing exciting and compelling ways of providing information on Alexa.
We are looking for software developers who share our passion for constantly improving information experiences for millions of customers on Alexa. We require you to have strong coding and communication skills, and experience with Object Oriented programming languages like Java or C++. Preference would be given to candidates with experience in building high-performance, reliable systems in a complex, multi-tiered, and distributed environment.
Desired profile
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.