Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloud-based voice service that powers the Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show and more. Just ask Alexa for information, music, news, weather, and more. And now you can send a message, make a call, play announcements, or drop in on your closest friends & family via Alexa devices or the Alexa app!
Its still Day One for the Alexa Communications team we have a lot to innovate and build to make communication through Alexa devices a magical experience. Were working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us! The Alexa communications team is working to become the most natural way for people to communicate, and the challenge ahead is significant. We're a high energy, fast growth business excited to have the opportunity to define the future of voice-controlled communications, make Alexa even more useful, and delight customers around the world.
We are seeking talented Software Development Engineers to join our Alexa Comms Growth team. We build recommendation systems that fuel active users growth for Alexa Comms via feature discovery, engagement and churn reduction. We leverage various machine learning techniques and big data platforms to process high volume data and build low-latency systems to serve personalized recommendations. In this role you will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on design, architecture and implementation large scale systems with cutting edge technologies.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about an opportunity to build elegant systems in the most efficient ways and pushing the limits of current technology and challenging status quo.

Key Responsibilities include:
Contribute to develop and launch machine learning algorithms
Influence our overall strategy by taking data driven approach and working backward from customers
Create world class software by spearheading best practices
Interact with cross-functional engineering teams across the company
Participate in design reviews

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
1.5+ years of industry experience, building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems for commercial online services
Experience in developing object-oriented software, with deep experience in on or more relevant languages (eg. Java, C++ or C)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with recommendation systems and related machine learning algorithms
Experience with ECS, CDK, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, EMR, Kinesis streams or related technologies.

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