As a Senior FrontEnd Engineer at Amazon you will be an autonomous contributor to your teams software delivering working features spanning the full software lifecycle. You will collaborate effectively with crossfunctional partners such as designers and product managers to create highquality user experiences. Your code will demonstrate best practices and meet Amazons high standards for quality.
Key job responsibilities
Deliver software features and improvements to major portions of your teams frontend software including new development refactoring and deprecation work
Design and implement software solutions to enable new features or improve existing software
Work closely with customers UX designers product managers and peers to understand business and customer value
Contribute significantly to the full software development lifecycle including scoping design coding testing deployment and maintenance
Demonstrate operational excellence in all work including identifying and resolving root causes of operational issues
Actively participate in code and design reviews providing meaningful feedback to team members
Mentor and help develop junior team members and interns
A day in the life
As a Senior FEE at Amazon your day is filled with diverse and engaging activities. You typically start by diving into coding implementing new features or improving existing ones with highquality efficient frontend code. Throughout the day you participate in code and design reviews offering constructive feedback to your teammates and ensuring you all maintain high standards. Collaboration is a big part of your role you work closely with UX designers product managers and backend engineers to understand requirements and integrate the frontend with APIs. You contribute to software design discussions create technical designs for your assigned tasks and write unit tests to ensure code reliability.
Youre also involved in operational support keeping an eye on system health and jumping in to resolve any production issues that arise. You make sure to update documentation as you implement changes and often find yourself mentoring junior engineers or interns.
Youre always learning staying updated on the latest frontend technologies and sharing knowledge with your team. You focus on performance optimization ensuring the frontend is as fast and efficient as possible. While your specific tasks might vary depending on current projects and priorities you work independently on most tasks seeking guidance when you encounter particularly complex challenges or architectural decisions. Its a dynamic role that keeps you engaged and growing every day.
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)
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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.