Sr. Software Development Engineer, Alexa Global quality
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Lead the development of infrastructure to scale Alexa to international locales, shaping features, architecture, and best practices. Drive cross-functional projects across engineering, design, and product teams to deliver scalable, global Alexa features. Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high-quality software on schedule, while mentoring and guiding teams. Requires 5+ years of software development with experience in design or architecture of scalable systems, strong communication, and leadership in fast-paced settings.
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.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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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