Key Responsibilities:
- Interested in Alexa+? Ever wonder what's involved in enabling developers to create experiences for Alexa+? Then come help us build the AI-native SDKs that developers use every day to expand Alexa+ capabilities!
- Our goal is make Alexa+ an instantly familiar personal assistant that is always ready to help or entertain on any device. At the core of this vision is Alexa Skills Developer Technologies, a close-knit team that s dedicated to providing software developers with the tools, primitives, and services they need to easily create engaging customer experiences that expand the wealth of information, products and services available on Alexa.
- You will join a growing organization working on top technology using GenerativeAI and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day, by people you know.
We re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!
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. Be responsible for the end to end ownership of a technology team, including setting the technical vision for developing our systems to serve Alexa's needs.
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. Build and manage great software engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining software.
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. Be an advocate of engineering and operational excellence.
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. Establish a consistent, project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations.
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. Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision.
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. Be responsible for mentoring and developing engineers.
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. Represent the technical organization and evangelize the work to senior leadership.
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. Raise the bar on technical excellence, show thought leadership, and communicate well to different audiences.
About the team:
Alexa Skills Developer Tech is an organization within Alexa+ on a mission to empower skill builders to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa+ conversational, smarter, personalized, and gets things done.
Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers