Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Alexa Routines
$165.2-223.6k
+ RSUs
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
$165.2-223.6k
+ RSUs
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- The Alexa Routines team is building innovative features that allow customers to customize how Alexa works for them and perform recurring tasks automatically
- Our team focuses on learning behaviors and proactively offering ready-made Routines to customers, helping them get the most out of their Alexa devices
- You will work closely with engineering and product stakeholders to build features that customers love
- You will have the opportunity to work with Generative AI and other state of the art technologies to help build personalization and recommendation solutions from the ground up
- Collaborate with Product and UX to translate product requirements into technical requirements
- Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems operating at Amazon scale
- Design and build customer facing features in the Alexa Mobile App
- Gain expertise in innovative technologies and algorithms, including Generative AI
- Mentor junior engineers through feedback and insightful code reviews
- Define and implement best practices on the team
- Maintain and improve existing systems to keep them up-to-date with the latest best practices
- On a given day, you will meet with your teammates to make important decisions about your services architectures and team's technical direction
- You will meet with partner teams to align on technical details ensure that the right progress is being made towards shared goals
- You will write code to build new features, both for cloud side applications as well as for the Alexa Mobile App
- You will see direct feedback from our customers, allowing you to advocate on their behalf and bring your own ideas to the team about what we should build next
- Our team is highly collaborative and actively seeks out a wide range of opinions to build the best features for our customers
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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