Software Development Engineer, Alexa Music, Alexa Music

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Description

The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about Alexa and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Leading development and maintenance of key system features
  • Working with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
  • Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules.
  • If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
  • 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
  • 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
  • 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education.
  • Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
  • Experience designing and developing software services for scalability, performance and reliability.
  • 4+ years experience building successful production software systems
  • Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts
  • Experience with developing, releasing and maintaining a large scale services or applications

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Job Details

Posted on Nov 22

Seattle, WA, USA

Full time

Mid