Software Engineer, Amazon Photos

Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product.

Are you excited about building product experiences that reach millions of customers? Do you want to own the full product stack — from backend services to the experiences on screen? Are you energized by shipping features that combine the latest in AI and voice technology with real consumer impact?

If you answered "yes" to any of these, the Photos Alexa Experiences team may be the perfect fit. We're building the next generation of how customers interact with their photo memories across Alexa devices — using voice and AI to create magical, personalized experiences. Your work ships to millions of Amazon Customers across Echo Show, Fire TV, and other Alexa-powered devices.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build full-stack features spanning front-end experiences on Alexa devices and scalable backend services
- Own features end-to-end: from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production monitoring
- Integrate with LLM-powered systems to deliver intelligent, voice-driven photo experiences to customers
- Collaborate with Alexa platform teams and Photos infrastructure teams to deliver seamless cross-device experiences
- Contribute to technical direction and architecture decisions for the team
- Improve developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence across the stack

About the team
The Photos Alexa Experiences team owns the end-to-end photos experience on Alexa-powered devices. We build the features that let customers discover, enjoy, and share their memories through voice commands and intelligent displays. We work in Alexa AI stack, giving you hands-on exposure to how LLMs operate in production at scale. The team is high-velocity and collaborative — every engineer has meaningful influence on technical direction and product decisions. Your work reaches millions of Prime members across multiple device types.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 2+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually