Front-End Engineer II, Design

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Do you love music and are excited about building the future of audio entertainment experiences Are you driven by directly impacting the look and feel of customer facing applications Do you want to collaborate with design and engineering experts to deliver technologies that help accelerate innovation at Amazon If so, the Amazon Music Product Design team is looking for a talented, passionate, Front-End Engineer with a track record of delivery, ownership and attention to detail that is excited to help us grow our design system, and prototype new features that customers will love. You will help champion how the Amazon Music design team delivers experiences that are distributed around the world, spanning mobile apps, web, TV, and voice.s and musical cultures.

Key job responsibilities
. Working on our library of reusable foundations, components and patterns.
. Working on an extensible motion framework to support our quality bar.
. Working on high-fidelity prototypes to support our next generation experiences.
. Write high-quality, clean, efficient, performant, and well documented code to create reusable and modular components.
. Document front-end engineering best practices for other cross-functional team members.
. Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
. Provide thorough unit and integration testing, and support products while deployed and used by our customers.
. Balance constraints, limiting short-term workarounds, while focusing on future extensions.
. Drive consensus between design, engineering and product owners.

A day in the life

We're growing quickly and hiring the best this is day one. This Front-End Engineer will support the Design Systems & Engineering team focused on user-interface development, prototyping, and tooling to deliver high quality user-interfaces and user-experiences for the Amazon Music app. The role requires the need to be adept at both application architecture, reusable component frameworks, understanding the intricacies of component design, while also creating and maintaining mechanisms to deliver high quality code - including libraries, motion frameworks and prototyping design explorations. You'll work closely with a cross functional team of UX designers, motion designers, and other engineers to collaborate on feature designs, create prototypes, implement dynamic app animations, and contribute to the component library for our Design System. Your peers will look to you to communicate technical feasibility and alternative solutions when roadblocks are discovered. Your prototyping work will help extend design explorations and drive high quality UX across our app experience. Within this fast-paced environment, you will also contribute to testing, deployment, and maintenance of our component library which is leveraged by our engineering org.

About the team
This role will sit on a local product design team consisting of UX designers and a program manger but will collaborate closely with the Design Systems & Engineering team (embedded within the global Product Design team). The Design Systems & Engineering team builds our design system UI library, and builds and distributes prototypes that are used for innovation and user-testing. We set the standard for the process, earning trust with all partners, biasing for action when working within tight parameters, and using sound judgment to make decisions in areas of ambiguity or uncharted territories. We partner with our engineering counterparts on the experience teams with the primary objective to enable the development of bar-raising design for our apps.

Our team is focused on balancing life with our work, and we do this via work autonomy and by putting focus on prioritizing solutions and processes that enable us to scale.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
- 1+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, complexity analysis, object-oriented design, and design patterns

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience
- Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
- Experience building performant cross-platform Mobile Applications using React Native and GraphQL
- Working knowledge of iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows, Linux and Web platforms

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