Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Properties

2 months ago


Vancouver, Canada Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC Full time
Alexa Smart Properties provides property-ready features, making it easy to deploy, integrate, and manage Alexa-enabled devices and experiences at scale for a variety of property types.

As a SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying solutions for Alexa Smart Properties and enterprise customers world-wide customer. In this, you will collaborate closely with Alexa/AWS/Solution Architects and many other teams and functions to influence our overall strategy and define the team’s road map. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
Want to join a startup team building new Alexa experiences for hospitality and other out of home segments? Customers tell us they love the convenience of Alexa and smart home, and we want to extend those experiences to shared living spaces such as rentals, assisted living and more.

We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineer who has experience building innovative applications that customers love. You will build new services and experiences from ground up, will be a technical leader and have impact tech design, architecture, and implementation of Alexa features.

In this role, you will take a pragmatic and iterative approach to building software: You will simplify and get things done while experimenting on rapid iterations on the new concepts. You will need to be a focused and thoughtful leader of your team who works effectively with external and internal partners.

A day in the life
Your role in this startup team will offer diverse opportunities for creating innovative software. On a given day you might:

- Design and develop micro-services to create new core software services.
- Build service architectures that have rock solid availability and performance.
- Work closely with customers, product managers, cross-team developers to build innovative software.
- Contribute to shaping up the learning habits of our youngest customers.
- Celebrate a successful rollout with a first-class engineering team

About the team
Alexa Smart Properties provides property-ready features, making it easy to deploy, integrate, and manage Alexa-enabled devices and experiences at scale for a variety of property types.

We work on expanding Alexa's use case by creating features and core Alexa system functionality that allows Alexa to be use by business enterprises (as opposed to personal homes). You will be writing code to deliver these pieces of functionality.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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



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