Software Development Engineer - Accessibility

DESCRIPTION
At Alexa Shopping, we strive to enable shopping in everyday life. We allow customers to instantly order whatever they need, by simply interacting with their Devices such as Amazon Show, Spot, Echo, Dot or Tap. Our Services allow customers to shop, no matter where they are or what they are doing

The Alexa Shopping group is seeking talented and experienced engineers to improve our platform, and build new and innovative features to better support the needs of customers with disabilities. You will be part of developing internal accessibility tooling as well as building exceptional front-end experiences that delight all our customers. You will work closely with a talented team of engineers, product managers, and UX designers to identify and deliver solutions that simplify the shopping experience for all customers. You may create prototypes to demonstrate to others the feasibility of solutions and get them to production level code. You will bring your experience to drive team best practices and operational excellence of the services owned by your team.

You will partner with other Amazon and third-party services and device teams as required. An ability to collaborate to design and deliver integrated systems across teams is a must.


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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
· 2+ years of experience building production software systems
· Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem solving.
· Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, C, C++ or Objective C.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Experience with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and ARIA implementation and accessibility best practices
· Understand how to optimize resource usage for efficiency (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, caches appropriately)
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
· Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
· Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
· Comfortable challenging assumptions and thinking of creative ways to tackle problems