About the position
Alexa+ is our next-generation, AI-powered digital assistant. Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, intelligent, and personalized than previous versions - helping you get things done with ease. Whether it's entertainment, learning, organization, summarization, or open-ended conversation, Alexa+ can assist. Alexa+ can also manage and protect your smart home, make reservations, discover new content, and help you shop online. We’re looking for entrepreneurs who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of product ownership, and want to have fun while they make history. Customers have now purchased over half a billion Alexa-enabled devices. Join us as we innovate at scale to shape the future of human-computer interaction on mobile and web!
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, performant, and secure web applications powered by LLMs.
- Build and maintain end-to-end features across the front-end and back-end.
- Design intuitive and responsive user interfaces to enable seamless LLM interaction.
- Architect scalable and modular systems with a focus on performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
- Define and enforce engineering best practices (code quality, testing, CI/CD, logging, observability).
- Mentor and guide other engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, and pair programming.
- Lead/Implement client and server-side performance optimizations for large-scale usage.
- Stay up to date with evolving LLM capabilities, frontend frameworks, and backend technologies.
- Propose and prototype new ideas to improve user experience, model utilization, or internal tooling.
- Partner with product managers and designers to shape the product roadmap.
- Translate high-level product ideas into clear technical specifications and deliverables.
- Drive alignment on architectural decisions, security, and long-term technical vision.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
- 4+ years of full stack development experience.
- 4+ years of experience with modern web application development technologies and frameworks (e.g., React, Node.js, GraphQL, TailwindCSS etc) and responsive design.
Benefits
- Medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
