Software Developer Engineer at Amazon

Many of our customers want to reduce their carbon footprint. The Alexa Smart Home team is bringing to market new Alexa-enabled and voice-driven products that help customers track their home appliance power consumption and identify opportunities for reducing their carbon footprint. We are building a new high-scale cloud-based services, creating an architecture that leverages ML and other inputs to deliver a compelling experience for consumers and developers. We are looking for passionate and talented engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical scalable services. In this role you will lead and design the development of scalable services to enable customers to seamlessly connect their smart home devices into the Alexa ecosystem. This is a rapidly evolving space and we are looking for engineers who are comfortable working across design, product and tech to deliver best in class, re-usable, and scalable UI solutions to our customers. We have a team full of exceptional engineers, great work-life balance, and a collaborative team culture. You will also have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want to use every day. Like the world of smart phones less than 10 years ago, this is a rare opportunity to have a giant impact on the way people live. If this sounds like fun, let's talk! Basic qualifications 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (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 software programming language. BS in Computer Science, or equivalent professional or military experience in data structures, algorithms, design and systems architecture. 2+ years of professional software development experience. Experience with an object oriented language (Java, C#, C++, python or other) or functional programming language (Lisp, Clojure, Haskell, F# or other) Preferred qualifications 3+ years professional experience building and operating scalable distributed systems across the lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, operations, and maintenance is preferred. Experience with React Native, Redux and Javascript or TypeScript is a plus. Experience with defining, developing and maintaining REST based interfaces is a plus. Apply To This Job

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