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Description

Do you like Alexa? Do you love bleeding edge technology? We are looking for exceptional developers to work on enabling Alexa on the Edge – the voice controlled personal assistant behind Amazon Echo family and other 1P/3P devices. The team seeks to provide seamless experiences for customers with Alexa.

The ideal candidate is deeply passionate about new opportunities. Commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of key system features

• Will work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype technology and evaluate technical feasibility.

• Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules.

• Will establish architectural principles, select design patterns and then mentor team members on their appropriate application

A day in the life

As a Software Development Engineer, you will be focused on the design, implementation, and delivery of software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces. You will be working with an assorted set of stakeholders across organization such as product, program management, and UX teams and will influence the technology decisions that will drive future products and features that directly affect our growth in this critical space.

About the team

Alexa Hybrid Engine vision is to make Alexa faster, more reliable, provide for better privacy, and enable unique experiences, only possible with local processing. Our technology stack extends from audio input through utterance and intent processing, skill invocation and response processing, text-to-speech, model building and delivery, and engine workflow configurations. We collaborate to reuse technology where available, build where we see a gap, and provide engineering and scientific innovation where opportunity exists. We measure our success based on adoption and usage of the platform, tools and experiences we enable.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Gdansk, POL

Basic Qualifications

• Several years of non-internship professional software development experience

• Few years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• Several 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

• Experience in embedded development in C/C+Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.