Front-End Engineer-II

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Description
Amazon's eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience. Serving millions of customer page views and orders per day, eCF builds for scale. As an organization within eCF, the Business Data Technologies (BDT) group is no exception. We collect petabytes of data from thousands of data sources inside and outside Amazon including the Amazon catalog system, inventory system, customer order system, page views on the website. We provide interfaces for our internal customers to access and query the data hundreds of thousands of times per day. We build scalable solutions that grow with the Amazon business. BDT team is building an enterprise-wide Big Data Marketplace leveraging AWS technologies. We work closely with AWS teams like EMR/Spark, Redshift, Athena, S3 and others. We are developing innovative products including the next-generation of data catalog, data discovery engine, data transformation platform, and more with state-of-the-art user experience. We're looking for top Front end engineers to build them from the ground up.

This is a hands-on position where you will do everything from designing & building UI components that is used by teams across SDO. You will also mentor engineers and work with the most sophisticated customers in the business to help them get the best results. You need to not only be a top front end developer with excellent programming skills, have an understanding of scaling in design and parallelization, and a stellar record of delivery, but also excel at leadership, customer obsession and have a real passion for massive-scale computing.

Come help us build for the future of Data

Key job responsibilities

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Driving strategic decision-making on critical UI feature development, from design through implementation and to testing and deployment
• Coaching and mentoring peers who share a common passion for front-end work, but may have little to no experience in its development
• Maintaining and raising the technical bar across all software development, but in particular around front-end work as you work to help foster a front-end engineering community
• Working closely with software and science managers, product owners, and business stakeholders across different teams on a daily basis to define system architecture, elaborate user stories and discuss business and technical trade-offs
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Drive big ideas to improve the customer experience we deliver across multiple touch points
• Develop high quality, testable, and maintainable user interfaces.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

A day in the life

This FEE in Data Comprehension team would lead product and front end initiatives within the team and beyond by partnering with internal and external stakeholders and teams. This FEE would need to come up with technical strategies and design for complex customer problems by leveraging out of box solutions to enable faster roll outs. They will deliver working front end systems consisting of multiple features spanning the full software lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance strategy. The problems they need to solve do not start with a defined technology strategy, and may have conflicting constraints. As FE technology lead in the team, they will review other SDEs' work to ensure it fits into the bigger picture and is well designed, extensible, performant, and secure. FEE will solve challenging problems at Amazon and drive the delivery of large frontend features from planning through implementation while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
• Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
• • Decompose a problem into clear system, API, and UX design actions.
• • Passion for operational excellence

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