Front End Engineer, Career Choice at Amazon.com Services LLC

In this role, you will own the design of major features from end-to-end, from Web UI and mobile app to dependent services and persistent storage.

Requirement 

• 5+ years of professional front-end development.
• Strong UX design skills, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Skilled with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
• Deep experience in one or more relevant front-end frameworks such as React.
• Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to customer feedback
• Solid coding practices including peer code reviews, unit testing, and a preference for agile development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).

Description

Job summary

Career Choice is Amazon's education benefit available to nearly 1M Amazon Associates in 14 countries. This program is currently expanding to help to support our Associates by offering foundational GED and language programs, as well as Associates and Bachelor's degree support, on top of the upskilling opportunities we already offer.

If you enjoy solving hard problems and have designed products that scale to meet demand, combine the best of internal and external services, and grow to meet the complex needs of your customers, you will fit right in. We are technical experts, but we go further. We know technology always exists in a larger context, so we create technical solutions from our customer's perspective to guarantee our solutions always deliver the intended result.

In this role, you will own the design of major features from end-to-end, from Web UI and mobile app to dependent services and persistent storage. Can you work with engineers from many backgrounds to translate designs into quality software that is highly scalable, available, low latency, and high performing... and reflects the best combination of the ideas in the room? If so, your design will get into production... so get ready to interact directly with the people who use your software, hear their feedback and use it to make your system even better!

Key job responsibilities

You're perfect for this role if you...

• Possess knowledge and skills in building highly interactive interfaces using modern JavaScript tooling like React
• design products that scale to meet demand
• combine the best of internal and external services, and grow to meet the complex needs of your customers
• enjoy solving problems that will take you beyond your technical abilities
• work well in a heterogeneous environment of different languages and technologies, and can bring flexibility, speed and quality to this team
• get excited about technology, have a strong interest in learning and playing with the latest technologies
• build compelling web applications and UI.
• A day in the life
• We have a standard cadence of team meetings to share work as well as casual, spontaneous collaboration often sparked through conversations in our team meetings or other communication channels.
• You will work directly within a 2 pizza development team and have significant ownership as you work within and across teams in order to meet deadlines and deliver results.
• Develop front end components for Career Choice's associate and school-portal facing experiences.
• About the team
• We develop processes and tools
• Identify and develop high-potential talent to fill future needs
• Provide lifecycle leadership and functional learning solutions.
• Our customer, World Wide Operations, is comprised of hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees across multiple global order fulfillment, transportation, corporate, and customer service organizations.
• This job may be either remote or located at any approved Amazon corporate office in the USA.
• Experience building scalable front-end infrastructure software or distributed systems.
• Experience building reusable UX components or libraries using Salesforce Lightning Web component and Visual force
• Understands how to optimize the delivery of code and assets to a browser or device
• Proficient in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns. Knows when (and when not) to use front-end software design pattern.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Ability to articulate the benefits and challenges of depending on front-end libraries, frameworks, and tool-sets.

The pay range for this position in Jersey City is $143,700 - 194,400/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Pay Transparency Regulation of Jersey City Municipal Code. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

The pay range for this position in Colorado is $143,700 - 194,400/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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