Software Development Engineer, Alexa Mobile_

Sunnyvale

Description

Are you a Software Engineer with a passion for building great experiences? Are you looking for an opportunity to build scalable and robust platform for Alexa App used by 10s of millions of customers around the world? Look no further.

We're focused on building the next generation of the Alexa Mobile App for mobile devices and are looking for talented developers. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting edge mobile product used every day. We are looking for passionate, hard working software engineers who have experience building innovative, mobile applications that customers love and will enhance their day to day capabilities.

Key job responsibilities

• Mobile application software development, design and prototyping

• Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing Android & iOS mobile app architecture

• Proficient in front-end languages, libraries, and rendering technologies such as JavaScript, Typescript, React Native, React.js, Java, Swift

• Experience defining front end architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.

• Experience developing highly interactive user experiences and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability on the client side.

• Writing clean, maintainable code and performing peer code-reviews

• Writing tests for new and existing code to drive code coverage to 100%

• Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility

• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

• Work closely with product and design teams to customize the Alexa experience on mobile devices

A day in the life

You will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core features. You will have 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.

About the team

You'll be part of a team that creates scalable solutions that make up the Mobile Architecture of the Alexa app. Our team provides the building blocks to effortlessly build scalable, secure, robust and performant code. Our mission is to make Alexa available anytime, anywhere. We're mobile experts who mentor and develop the best.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ 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

- 2+ years of professional non-internship experience with front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS

- Proficient in front-end languages, libraries, and rendering technologies such as JavaScript, Typescript, React Native, React.js, Java, Swift

- Experience with full-native, hybrid, and pure-web mobile app development.

- Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.

- Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts.

- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.

- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit mazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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. For more information, please visit boutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.