Build the Fire TV voice experience stack powering Alexa+ capabilities

Amazon's FTVX team is hiring an SDE II in Chennai to build developer and consumer experiences for Voice support on Fire TV, working closely with the AI stack — owning experts, action APIs, and other components feeding Alexa+ capabilities. The role expects hands-on Java/TypeScript work on scalable, low-latency, service-oriented systems plus real technical-leadership scope: driving roadmap, mentoring, and cross-team architecture alignment.

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Likely format

Amazon's standard SDE loop: online assessment, phone screen with coding, then onsite/virtual onsite rounds mixing coding, system design, and Leadership Principles behavioral interviews.

What this interview tests

Scalable, low-latency service-oriented architecture (Java/TypeScript)
API design between voice/action layers and backend 'expert' services
Database-backed system design at consumer-device scale
Technical roadmap ownership and mentoring junior engineers
Amazon Leadership Principles behavioral fit

Common question themes

Design a low-latency voice command/action-routing service for Fire TV

How would you architect the API layer between AI 'experts' and consumer-facing voice features

Describe a time you identified and resolved a technical risk before it derailed a project

A time you mentored a junior engineer or drove technical buy-in with external partners

Tradeoffs in your SOA/database design experience at scale

How candidates describe it

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