Frontend Engineer

Description

Are you interested in working at the Amazon Store scale? Are you interested in accelerating store builders to help Amazon innovate faster? Come join us as we are re-inventing Amazon's Store architecture and building the future runtime architecture to deliver shopping experiences that millions of Amazon customers use every day.

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer join a team that builds a programming language runtime for enabling interactivity and reactivity within the Amazon store. You will lead projects and partner with other teams to design, build, and evolve this system. You will have the opportunity dive deep into distributed systems that serve hundreds of thousands of transactions per second.

Key job responsibilities

As a Frontend Engineer you will use a combination of industry popular and Amazon proprietary software to build capabilities for evolving how experiences are built on the Amazon website. You will have the opportunity to effect worldwide and Amazon-wide impact like latency optimization to speed up the shopping experience for our customers. You will focus on testability, scalability, maintainability, code quality, and cogent design, and help raise the bar for the team's development in this aspect.

About The Team

This team sits within the Authoring Foundation org. Authoring Foundations is at the base of the Amazon's Store Architecture. Our mission is to simplify how Store Builders build portable and interactive frontend components, features, and experiences on the Amazon Store by providing a world-class programming language experience.

We foster an inclusive, and exciting team environment, all while tackling challenging and complex problems that will set the stage for how Store Builders create new experiences on the Amazon App and Website.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Francisco, CA, USA

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
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience
• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
  

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.