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Software Development Engineer, Alexa Devices, Alexa Presentation

Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC
Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN
$120K-$140K a year (estimated)
Full-time

Interested in Amazon Echo? Want to create products that will reach more than 100 million customers? Come join a close-knit team that's evolving the definition of Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant.

Amazon Alexa started with the vision of delivering the Star Trek computer to our customers. Today, customers can already ask Alexa to control their smart homes, TVs, play music, and get information, news, weather, and more using just their voice.

We are now augmenting Alexa’s voice-forward interaction model with a range of experiences such as rich animated visuals, video, and immersive audio.

We're creating the future of multi-modal interaction - what you see on devices today is just the beginning - it's still Day 1.

You’ve found the right team if you are a passionate software engineer with experience building innovative applications that customers love.

You will join a growing organization with teams in Seattle and Vancouver, Canada and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.

We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!

Key job responsibilities

  • Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices.
  • Ownership of the definition of the Alexa Presentation Language.
  • Understanding the business impact of your systems and showing good judgment when making technical trade-offs.
  • Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.
  • When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path, building consensus.
  • You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.

About the team

Our team creates the UI framework that runs on all Alexa-enabled devices with screens, Alexa Presentation Language. APL includes a portable rendering engine, tools, content, and responsive templates that developers and device makers can use to author and render multi-modal experiences.

Our software powers those experiences on our Echo family of devices, Fire Tablets, Amazon Fire TV, and many more. Our Alexa Skills Kit developer tools and Alexa Presentation Language APIs allow anyone to write applications for our devices.

We're committed to open source software, and are working to build a community around both our software stack and tools.

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
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
  • Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
  • 30+ days ago
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