Want to transform the way people enjoy discovering and listening to content on Alexa Echo & FireTV Devices? Come join the team that brought Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, SiriusXM, Apple Music, TuneIn, Audible books, Kindle books, Podcasts, and more to Alexa customers. We are innovating and changing the way our customers interact with media on Echo devices and Smart TV!

Alexa Audio Discovery team is responsible for the music experience for all Alexa customers. We define the customer experience for next generation of Alexa devices. Join us as a technical leader and vision setter working across Alexa, Music, mobile devices, and Internet of Things.

We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineer who has experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of Alexa features that are used every day by people you know.
The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about Alexa and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

Key job responsibilities
* Leading development and maintenance of key system features
* Collaborate with other team members to build design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
* Design and develop complex, interactive customer experiences.
* Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software.
* If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.
* Continue to evolve our collection of services while reducing the operational running costs for your team

A day in the life
We collaborate across disciplines. You will have the opportunity to work closely with product managers, UX designers and researchers, and business intelligence engineers to innovate, measure, analyze and refine the experiences we deliver to millions of customers across the planet on a daily basis. Our roles are all well defined, but we encourage individuals to cross boundaries and learn from each other.

About the team
We're a long-standing diverse team who pride ourselves in working together to leverage each person's unique skills and talents. Our focus has always been to create a good-looking Audio experience on MultiModal Alexa Devices (those with screens) and do this by partnering closely with our Product Manager colleagues. We're agile with a healthy work ethic, deliver features our friends and family love and strike a good balance with work-life harmony.