Description

Alexa is a strategic investment for Amazon, and we're building a voice and touch shopping assistant convenient enough that customers worldwide reach for it every day. Alexa Shopping aims to understand the needs of all shoppers — regardless of language, background, abilities, or economic means.

With Alexa Shopping now live on Amazon.com in addition to devices, the surface area of our features has expanded several times over. We're building a new framework to ensure the quality of everything we ship, across hundreds of millions of Alexa endpoints worldwide, each with different form factors, capabilities, and customer contexts. We're looking for a Senior SDE to architect that framework and build the system that enforces it. It will define what quality means for Alexa Shopping, and every experience we ship will pass through it.

You'll help build a framework that answers some genuinely open problems. How do you check correctness when the output is generated rather than retrieved, and there's no right answer to compare against? How do you decide which release gates need automated checks and which don't? How do you make a quality signal reliable enough that teams ship on it instead of working around it? Your answers become the standard the rest of the org builds on. You'll set technical direction across Alexa Shopping and Amazon Stores, working through other engineers as much as through your own code.

You'll have room to experiment and invent on behalf of customers, and you'll work with a leadership team that treats senior engineers as technical leaders, including mentorship inside and outside the org.

About the team
We're a horizontal platform team that every shopping vertical depends on. Our mission is to make quality and velocity the default for Alexa Shopping engineers, owning the technology that spans developer experience and the AI-powered developer lifecycle (DLC) through to QA automation across voice, visual, and touch. We act as force multipliers, building the frameworks that let every Shopping team move faster without compromising quality. We partner closely with teams across Alexa, favor reuse over rebuild, and care deeply about the craft of engineering.