Sr. Software Development Engineer, Alexa Global quality

Come join the team behind scaling Alexa Globally. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for leading the development of infrastructure helping to scale Alexa to international locales. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define the features, driving the system architecture, and spearheading best practices.

We encourage bold exploration of interactions and experiments that push innovation and use these learnings to bolster the foundation of best practice reference design patterns that foster a consistent, efficient, and familiar cross-product experience.

A successful candidate will have an established background in developing products, a strong technical ability, project management skills, solid communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and have a creative flair for achieving the impossible.


Key Responsibilities:
- Work on key infrastructure to support and responsible for scaling Alexa internationally.
- Work through all phases of the project lifecycle, including reviewing requirements, designing critical infrastructure and tools , building new interfaces, integrate with existing architectures, developing and testing code, and delivering seamless implementations for scaling Alexa features internationally.
- Ownership of projects that operate cross-functionally with multiple Alexa engineering, design and product teams.
- Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against defined schedules and milestones.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ 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
- 5+ 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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