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Software Development Manager, Alexa Skills Kit

Posted On

March 18, 2025

Location

Pune, Maharashtra

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Software Development

Apply By

June 10, 2025

Job Description

Alexa+ is our next-generation assistant powered by generative AI. Alexa+ is more conversational, smarter, personalized, and gets things done.

3P experts enables Alexa+ to complete complex tasks using third-party (3P) APIs and websites. Some of these include: reserving a table at a restaurant, hailing a ride, booking event tickets, scheduling an appointment and planning a trip. No more jumping between apps — just say what you want, and it's done.

3P developers and partners have been core to our vision since the beginning. With Alexa+, we reimagined how 3P developers can build for Alexa. Alexa Skill Builder Growth team’s charter is to enable creation of 3P experts at scale and make it seamless for 3P developers to integrate their businesses with Alexa+. We are measurably making Alexa+ smarter, and we need your help to define and build the next generation of capabilities using GenerativeAI.

Key job responsibilities
Interested in Alexa+? Ever wonder what's involved in enabling developers to create experiences for Alexa+? Then come help us build the AI-native SDKs that developers use every day to expand Alexa+ capabilities!

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 will join a growing organization working on top technology using GenerativeAI and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day, by people you know.

We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!

1. Be responsible for the end to end ownership of a technology team, including setting the technical vision for developing our systems to serve Alexa's needs.
2. Build and manage great software engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining software.
3. Be an advocate of engineering and operational excellence.
4. Establish a consistent, project management framework and excellent development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations.
5. Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision.
6. Be responsible for mentoring and developing engineers.
7. Represent the technical organization and evangelize the work to senior leadership.
8. Raise the bar on technical excellence, show thought leadership, and communicate well to different audiences.

About the team
Alexa Skills Kit or ASK is an organization within Alexa+ on a mission to empower skill builders to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa+ conversational, smarter, personalized, and gets things done. - 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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