Description

　　Would you like to be a part of building out the future of Smart Home Devices? Want to join a team that enables device makers to build smart home appliances?

　　The Alexa Smart Home team is focused on making Alexa the user interface for the home. Customers love using Alexa to interact with their homes through natural commands and intuitive interfaces. We are evolving Alexa into an intelligent, indispensable companion that helps customers get the most out of the technology in their homes.

　　The Alexa Connect Kit team is a team within Alexa Smart Home. We offer managed services (cloud services, firmware, devices) for enabling device makers to build smart home appliances. We work across verticals that Alexa Smart Home supports, partnering with manufacturers to bring to market everything from Christmas trees, coffee makers to light switches and air purifiers. We get to help out big grand partners such as Toshiba, Sharp, Hamilton Beach and more realize their product vision at what they do best, whilst we bring best in class Alexa and Smart Home features into their products in an easy to integrate manner.

　　The Alexa Connect Kit Team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help develop new solutions focused on improving the quality, diversity, and customer experience of smart home devices.

　　Key job responsibilities

　　At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world.

　　As a member of the Alexa Connect Kit team, you will be responsible for delivering tools and services to simplify the process for device makers to seamlessly manufacture IoT enabled devices. You will design and own solutions to simplify the device manufacturing processes providing innovative solutions to manufacturing processes. You will also be responsible for owning the SDK partners integrate with to connect their devices with Alexa's Smart Home Cloud.

　　The ideal teammate is passionate about Alexa and has a track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to teamwork, knowledge of IoT systems, strong CS fundamentals, experience developing new systems, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.

　　About the team

　　Our vision is to make customers’ lives at home easier and more convenient by connecting every home appliance to Alexa.

　　You will get a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue learning. You will build software that will materially improve people’s lives.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Bangalore, KA, IND

　　Basic Qualifications

　　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

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　5+ 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