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Software Development Engineer, Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Skills Kit

Salary

₹30 - 45 LPA

Min Experience

3 years

Location

Mumbai

JobType

full-time

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About the role

Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloud service that powers Echo, the groundbreaking new Amazon device designed around your voice. Echo is always ready — just ask for information, music, news, weather and more. Skills are like apps for Alexa, and provide a new channel for your content and services. Skills let customers use their voices to perform everyday tasks. Skill Builders publish skills in the Alexa Skills Store to reach and delight customers on hundreds of millions of Alexa devices.Alexa Skill Builder Growth team's charter is to enable Skill Builders grow their business on Alexa. We do this by building publicly available intelligent web services and intuitive web-based tools that help Skill Builders drive discoverability of their skills, enable natural and seamless interactions between skills and generate revenue. E.g., our name-free interaction (NFI) Toolkit makes it easier for customers to find and open skills without having to remember and say the skill's name. NFI enables skills to compete for customer's utterances by providing build and runtime signals. We are continuously experimenting with new ways for driving Skill Builder growth and the ones that succeed, we make them publicly available. We are measurably making Alexa smarter, and we need your help to define and build the next generation of capabilities as we shift focus towards trending Large Language Models(LLM).Key job responsibilitiesInterested in Amazon Echo? Ever wonder what's involved in enabling millions of developers to create skills for Alexa? Then come help us build the Alexa Skills Kit that developers use every day to expand Alexa's skill set!Our goal is make Alexa an instantly familiar personal assistant that is always ready to help or entertain on any device. At the core of this vision is Alexa Skills Developer Technologies, a close-knit team that's dedicated to providing software developers with the tools, primitives, and services they need to easily create engaging customer experiences that expand the wealth of information, products and services available on Alexa.You've found the right team if you are a passionate software engineer with experience building innovative applications that customers love. You will join a growing organization working on top technology using Large Language Models(LLM) and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.We're working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!Key job responsibilitiesBuilding software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices using latest fast moving technologies including LLMTaking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.Understanding the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path, building consensus.You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices

About the company

Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, in Bellevue, Washington, Amazon started as an online bookstore operating from Bezos' garage. With a vision to revolutionize retail, Amazon expanded rapidly, diversifying into multiple sectors including cloud computing (Amazon Web Services), artificial intelligence (Alexa), entertainment (Prime Video), and smart devices (Kindle, Fire TV). Today, Amazon is one of the largest and most influential companies in the world, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with operations spanning globally.

Skills

echo
security