Alexa News keeps customers informed about the world around them by seamlessly integrating the news they want most into their everyday lives. We curate content using large language models (LLM) and provide personalized news experiences across multiple devices, including the Echo Family, Fire TV, and Fire Tablet. These experiences touch every aspect of news, from lean-back (“Alexa, what’s the news?”) to specific questions (“Alexa, what’s the latest with the election?”). Our teams work in a fast-paced environment with people who are passionate about our customers, experiences, and systems. As a member of the team, you should be able to learn new concepts quickly and feel at home in a new and constantly evolving space.

Key job responsibilities
- Work with product / business teams to help define experience as we onboard new content / providers.
- Work with engineers on the team / partner teams to help ensure we are delivering a consistent experience for our customers.
- Actively participate / lead org wide design reviews to make sure right technical investments are being made to achieve long term success for the product.
- Participate in peer code reviews. Make sure code is well architected and documented. Review associated tests to make sure there is coverage across the use-cases.
- Mentor engineers on the team to help get better in regards to the software development life cycle / processes.

A day in the life
As a Software Developer on the team, you’ll be responsible for taking on challenging technical and customer problems and building and maintaining quality products and systems. You should be able to build for the long-term, driving sound architectures and designing for stability of your systems, with the ability to evolve over time. You should be able to work with a variety of partners to help define our experiences and requirements, and work with your teammates to deliver delightful experiences to our customers. Additionally, you should have a strong sense of ownership, pushing for best practices and operational excellence and display a constant desire to learn and improve.

About the team
The Alexa News Cortex team is responsible for producing the most personalized and delightful news experiences for customers. We work on LLM based content curation, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and large scale back-end services to help deliver great experiences to our customers. On our team, you’ll work directly with both our customer facing and behind the scenes experiences, you’ll work to ensure that customers always hear the news that matters most to them.