Software Development Engineer, Alexa Social

Software Development Engineer, Alexa Social

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Job summary
Alexa Social organization was incubated with a vision to connect millions of customers through meaningful social experiences built around relationships and shared affinities. We are a nascent organization with the spirit of a start-up. We currently support features such as song and photo sharing. We are growing rapidly, and making strategic investments in multiple new social experiences.

As a key member of the Alexa Social team you will be an innovator, playing a direct role in shaping and building products that customers love, with the power of Amazon's technology at your disposal. You will be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up like environment where agile development is embraced and innovation is encouraged. At Amazon, every engineer has the opportunity to positively impact millions of customers and you will be called on to identify and realize these opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product and design teams to Influence overall product strategy
• Working with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility
• Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, quality products
• Building highly scalable, reliable and available distributed services leveraging AWS Cloud
• Contributing to operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions
• Writing clean, maintainable code and performing peer code-reviews
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Find new ways to solve challenging problems every day

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C, or C# including object-oriented design
• Bachelor's degree in computer science related fields OR 1+ years equivalent experience in software development

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
• 1+ 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
• Experience designing and developing distributed software applications and services using Java, Scala, Go, C#, or C, and Object Oriented Design

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• AWS Cloud experience
• Familiarity with frontend development
• Demonstrated ability to take a project from requirements gathering and design to actual product launch
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, the ability to learn and adapt quickly to a fast-paced development environment
• Adept at handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving skills and effective communication
• Innovative, creative, flexible and passionate about building highly scalable services
• Self-motivated with the ability to design and write high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code

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