DESCRIPTION
Alexa Daily Essentials makes household life more convenient and fulfilling, building capabilities for Alexa to understand and support the daily habits of every member of an Alexa home.
As a Sr. SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying solutions for Alexa Daily Essentials customers. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Alexa Daily Essentials domains and many other teams and functions to influence our overall strategy and define the team’s roadmap. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a talented senior software development engineer who has experience building innovative applications that customers love. You will build new services and experiences from ground up, will be a technical leader and have impactful tech design, architecture, and implementation of Alexa features.
In this role, you will take a pragmatic and iterative approach to building software: You will simplify and get things done while experimenting on rapid iterations on the new concepts. You will need to be a focused and thoughtful leader of your team who works efficiently with internal partners.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ 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
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The base salary for this position ranges from $150,700/year up to $251,700/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.