Amazon
Mid
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
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