What are the responsibilities and job description for the Alexa Skills Developer position at GBTI Solutions Inc?
Summary
Lead design, development, maintenance, and production support of Talking Books using Amazon Alexa Skills to search/browse the collection, wishlist and bookshelf, voice-only playback/streaming, Login with Amazon, and integration with the RealSAM Dialog Engine.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 years developing and maintaining voice-only user-interface applications on the Amazon Alexa platform
- Demonstrated production experience with Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), dialog/intent models, and skills hosted on AWS
- Able to lead sprint-level technical decisions, code reviews, and demos to government SMEs and the product owner
- Must be U.S. Citizen
Desired Skills
- Node.js (primary skill runtime); Java and/or Python as needed for services
- REST APIs, JSON, microservices; familiarity with SOAP
- OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, Login with Amazon (LWA)
- Streaming audio for talking books, including OPUS and related codecs (MP3, AMR-WB awareness)
- Production monitoring and defect triage (Sentry; TestRail/Appium a plus)
- Platform encryption/cryptography and IT security practices for CUI / moderate systems
- GitHub or GitLab source control; documented, maintainable code
- RealSAM or similar proprietary dialog engines
- DAISY, WCAG 2.1/2.2, Section 508, voice-only UX
- Federal SDLC, Agile Scrum, ATO support artifacts