Amazons 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 enterprisewide 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 nextgeneration of data catalog data discovery engine data transformation platform and more with stateoftheart user experience. Were looking for top Front end engineers to build them from the ground up.
This is a handson 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 massivescale computing.
Key job responsibilities
This L6 FEE in Andes Data Security and Gen AI would lead product and front end initiatives within the team and beyond by partnering with internal and external stakeholders and teams. This L6 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.
Successful candidates for this position will have a strong background in building web applications using current technologies such as HTML5 JavaScript and CSS and webUI frameworks like jQuery React Flux etc. Working with Web Services JSON Apache/Tomcat services is desired
A day in the life
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
Driving strategic decisionmaking on critical UI feature development from design through implementation and to testing and deployment
Coaching and mentoring peers who share a common passion for frontend 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 frontend work as you work to help foster a frontend 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 tradeoffs
* Collaborate with experienced crossdisciplinary 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 highquality software.
4 years of noninternship professional front end web or mobile software development using JavaScript HTML and CSS experience
5 years of frontend developer creating prototypes or wireframes for enterprise web applications or workflows experience
Experience developing with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. AngularJS Vue)
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP HTTP WSDL XSD and REST
Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.
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