Front End Engineer, DynamoDB

Are you interested in building operational interfaces to support some of the largest distributed systems in the world Do you want to revolutionize the way people view and manage huge volumes of data On the Amazon DynamoDB team our mission is to provide customers with best-in-class cloud data services to store query and analyze the enormous datasets that their businesses generate. We build distributed storage index and query systems that are scalable fault tolerant low cost and easy to manage and use. These are exciting timeswe are building an elite team of developers in Dublin to work on ambitious initiatives to keep pace with the global demand for DynamoDB.
We are looking for smart motivated engineers who are passionate about delivering a world-class customer experience. If you have the skills for building high-performance customer-friendly products that delight customers and you are passionate about the latest innovations in cloud computing this might be the job for you. AWS is a unique place where you can design and build innovative technologies in a very large distributed-computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
Dynamo DB team is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.


Key job responsibilities
Position responsibilities:
- Drive the architecture and technology roadmap and execution for key DynamoDB services
- Define functional and technical feature epics and user stories and translate them into detailed solution architecture
- Code and test system components and lead code and design reviews
- Deliver and operate highly available scalable low-latency services in production
- Multitask and quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements - Be responsible for the overall system architecture scalability reliability and performance
- Mentor other engineers define the technical culture and help grow the team.

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- Experience (non-internship) in professional front end web or mobile software development using JavaScript HTML and CSS
- Experience in computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis)
- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

- Experience in agile software development methodology
- Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML CSS JS TypeScript and Node
- Experience with object-oriented design

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