Sr. Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Properties

Alexa Enterprise Products Team Software Developer

Are you looking for an opportunity to build an LLM based enterprise-grade, highly available, large scale, software solution? Does it excite you to find patterns and build generic, composable software solutions to solve complex problems? If so, we are looking for you to fill a challenging position in Alexa Enterprise Products team. This is a hands-on position where you will get an opportunity to get involved at every level of the software development cycle, from designing and building rock-solid components to deploying and monitoring them in production, as well as mentoring other engineers. We are looking for a software developer with a good track record of delivering, as well as strong communication, leadership and customer-focus skills. This is a unique and rare opportunity to become a part of a fast-growing business and help shape technology and features for Alexa at enterprise properties.

You will lead the design, development, testing and deployment of cross team projects, meet with stakeholders, drive execution, and mentor junior engineers. You will be an independent technical leader, capable of working on your own and guiding team members to navigate complex problems. In this role, you will lead and architect Alexa-enabled devices. You will influence architecture across the Alexa ecosystem and play a pivotal role in designing the future of Alexa 3P devices. You will lead projects to streamline team processes and create mechanisms to effectively deliver projects.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Leading the architecture, design, development and launch of core services and features to be used across multiple teams within Amazon and outside.
• Having significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.
• Demonstrating a passion for new opportunities and having a track record of success in delivering new features and products.
• Committing to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners).
• Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products with exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Thriving and succeeding in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

A day in the life will include:

• Being the technical leader responsible for design, development, and operations.
• Brainstorming new ideas and working on forward looking architectures and design with Principal Engineers and other Senior Software Engineers.
• Architecting, analyzing, designing, developing, testing, and deploying software features and fixing defects.
• Participating and leading in sprint planning and daily scrum, breaking down technical work, identifying technical blockers, and navigating solutions.
• Mentoring team members.
• Partnering with managers, other technical leaders across the organization to achieve a desired technical consensus.
• Authoring docs to communicate vision, proposals, and designs.

About the team:

Our team enables enterprise-scale deployment of Alexa-enabled devices at enterprise properties like hotels, hospitals, etc. We develop core functionality that extends Alexa's capabilities and bring magical voice/graphical based experiences for residents at these properties and act as property assistant.