Full Stack Developer at Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc.

The Amazon EC2 team is seeking front-end software developers who are passionate about creating beautiful, customer-facing products and rapidly innovating to improve experiences for millions of users.

Requirement 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or similar technical field.
• Knowledge and appreciation of web standards.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem solving.
• At least 4 years of experience building production web applications.
• Skilled in developing rich applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and integrating with REST APIs.
• At least 2 years of experience with one of the common JavaScript frameworks: React, Angular, Vue, or Backbone.
• Experience with React and Redux.
• Familiarity with object-oriented design and RESTful web services.
• Experience with scaling web applications for high user volume and data.
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting production systems.
• Proficient with UI test automation frameworks.

Description

Job summary

The Amazon EC2 team is seeking front-end software developers who are passionate about creating beautiful, customer-facing products and rapidly innovating to improve experiences for millions of users. Come join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) development team building web applications that enable customers to launch and manage Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances and other AWS resources. Be a builder on team that is using modern front-end technologies and inventing new ways to delight customers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a global cloud network operating at massive scale serving millions of customers, from individuals, to startups, to enterprise businesses. Each day, millions of developers execute billions of transactions worldwide on the AWS Cloud.

By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

In this role, you will:

• Develop new features and improvements for the VPC Console.
• Work closely with Product Managers and UX designers to build web-based products that are easy to understand and improve the cloud resource management experience for AWS customers.
• Own customer-facing features from design, implementation, testing, and through deployment.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Own quality and operational reliability of your products.
• You understand the trade-offs between usability, performance, internationalization and localization, cross-browser compatibility, obfuscation and optimization, and cutting edge customer interface implementation.
• You have a working knowledge of UI design principles and are able to apply style guides to new interface use cases.
• You work in collaboration with UI Designers on website interface and interactivity.
• You understand how web applications work, perform, and scale. You are comfortable with troubleshooting and problem analysis.
• You recognize and adopt best practices in front-end development: design, testing, version control, documentation,build, deployment, and operations.
• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code that functions well across browsers.
• You have a working knowledge of the latest UI technologies, frameworks and concepts including HTML 5, REST, jQuery, AJAX, CSS3, SOA, responsive design.
• You understand fundamental data structures and algorithms and know how, when and when not to use them.
• You recognize and utilize user interface design patterns to solve business problems with highly accessible and usable web applications.
• You build an understanding of what customers do and why they do it to ensure the solution meets their needs and is fit for purpose.
• You own problems not the solution, stepping back to understand the broader customer context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions. You build flexible/scalable systems without over-engineering and choose simple,straightforward solutions over more complex ones. Where existing solutions are known, you use them.
• You anticipate and prevent future problems from occurring.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Experience with React and Redux.

Familiarity with object-oriented design and RESTful web services.

Experience with scaling web applications for high user volume and data.

Experience troubleshooting and supporting production systems.

Proficient with UI test automation frameworks.

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.

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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