Senior Software Development Engineer - Alexa Voice Service, Alexa Voice Services, AVS Engineering

"Alexa, find me a job where I can create and innovate." Yes, Alexa can make your wishes come true! On the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) team, you'll build software to enable Alexa's capabilities everywhere – in speakers, appliances, wearables, robots, and more! We're working with industry leaders to seamlessly integrate Alexa into any and all devices. It's awesome, and will change the way millions of people interact with their homes, cars and even their workplace.

If you're passionate about greenfield engineering opportunities and love to solve problems that have never been encountered before – this is the job for you. If you have an insatiable thirst to learn – you'll absolutely love this job. Imagine working together with other teams to architect solutions that define how customers interact with Alexa. You'll own your work from design to deployment, evangelize it and ensure its operational excellence in production.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the AVS team, you will:

• Lead the design, development, testing and deployment of cross team projects
• Meet with stakeholders, drive execution, and mentor junior engineers
• Be an independent technical leader, capable of working on your own and guiding team members to navigate complex problems
• Lead and architect Alexa-enabled devices
• Influence architecture across the Alexa ecosystem and play a pivotal role in designing the future of Alexa 3P devices
• Lead projects to streamline team processes and create mechanisms to effectively deliver projects

A day in the life:

• Be the technical leader responsible for design, development, and operations
• Brainstorm new ideas and work on forward-looking architectures and design with Principal Engineers and other Senior Software Engineers
• Architect, analyze, design, develop, test, and deploy software features and fix defects
• Participate and lead in sprint planning and daily scrum, break down technical work, identify technical blockers, and navigate solutions
• Mentor team members
• Partner with managers and other technical leaders across the org to achieve a desired technical consensus
• Author docs to communicate vision, proposals and designs

Join us to become a builder, an innovator, and game changer on the AVS team. Let's build something special, and have a ton of fun doing it!