Job Description
DESCRIPTION
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!
Key job 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.
- 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-side performance optimizations for large-scale usage.
- Stay up to date with evolving LLM capabilities, frontend frameworks and 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.
A day in the life
Drive high-level system design, establish long-term architectural roadmaps, and define the technical strategy in alignment with product and business goals. Collaborate across teams to ensure alignment and consistency in implementation. Deeply understand the business domain to proactively propose scalable, customer-centric solutions. Contribute to product development by analyzing and scoping requirements, providing technical input early in the lifecycle. Lead by example through active mentorship, thorough code reviews, and writing clean, maintainable, and high-quality code that sets the standard for the team.
About the team
You will operate in a responsive, flexible, and collaborative environment, leading an agile development team that embraces modern best practices in software engineering. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Principle Engineers/Senior Engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, assess technical feasibility, and deliver robust solutions that shape the next generation of our products. Your contributions will be instrumental in driving innovation and ensuring alignment between engineering and product strategy.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
- 3+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- Experience with object-oriented design
- Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react
Job Tags
Full time, Flexible hours,