Software Development Engineer II, Alexa Multimodal Initiatives
Amazon
Software Engineer Opportunity
Join the team that brought you the Echo Show, a touch-screen enabled Alexa device that supports video calling, music, weather, and more! Our Echo Software team works on not only the Echo Show but other high-profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV, Kindle, and the Echo family of devices. We're just getting started, and we'd love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers.
As a software engineer in the Alexa Devices team, you will help drive innovation by developing features that present innovative speech-backed visuals on our Echo Show, Echo Spot, and similar screened Alexa devices. Specifically, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining new systems, partnering with other Amazon and third-party services and device teams as required. You will ensure that Alexa almost never drops her end of the conversation, delivering services that respond with minimal latency at Amazon scale. You may work on device frameworks, web services, APIs, large scale data infrastructure, and more. If being at the forefront of new innovation for Alexa sounds exciting, we'd love to talk to you!
Key job responsibilities include:
- Inventing a novel delightful Android-based experience for our customers.
- Collaborating with UX and Product owners to define customer experience and product direction.
- Delivering high quality software through working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.
A day in the life will involve you being responsible for developing and maintaining new systems, partnering with other Amazon and third-party services and device teams as required. You will ensure that Alexa almost never drops her end of the conversation, delivering services that respond with minimal latency at Amazon scale. You will work on device frameworks, APIs and more.