Amazon.com

Front End Engineer

Posted on: 14 Apr 2021

Seattle, WA

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

The AWS Infrastructure group is responsible for forecasting, ordering, procuring, setting up and operating all AWS infrastructure. This includes data center setup, equipment purchase, installation and operation of servers with power and cooling, inventory management and other such decisions.

The Supply Chain OS (SC.os) group within AWS infrastructure is building a new suite of tools to automate all AWS supply chain planning. We are responsible for tactical decision making such as data center operations, demand fulfillment, replenishment, as well a long term decision making like inventory management, network design and others.

The solutions we develop are scalable to sustain rapid AWS growth, and also flexible to support the evolving AWS supply chain. The Customer Order and Forecast Management specifically is responsible for building order management and forecast management products, which involves using simulations, predictive learning and other sciences to provide a great customer experience to customers.

We are looking for Front End Engineers who want to work on challenging, high impact problems in a full stack environment. The services and applications we own are responsible for processing billions of dollars in spend and millions of transactions per year, resulting in us having a huge opportunity to move the needle in a positive direction.

The team has a great group of senior engineering and science talent, so it will be a great place for someone to deliver results, while also learning and progressing their career. The team uses a variety of technology in building the product suite which is all based on core AWS technologies.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
3+ Years' experience building scalable front-end infrastructure software or distributed systems for commercial online services.
3+ Years' of experience with cross browser compatibility, browser tuning and optimization techniques/tools
3+ years of experience delivering front-end software that is stable, secure and high performant
3+ years of experience developing rich applications with HTML, CSS, JS, Node
3+ years of experience developing front-end software, with experience in one or more relevant front-end frameworks (like ReactJS and AngularJS), UI Test Automation frameworks, MVC frameworks.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Masters Degree in Computer Science or related field
4+ years professional experience in software development
Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns. Knows when (and when not) to use front-end software design patterns (e.g., asynchronicity, promises, etc.).
Experience in view layout and rendering technologies (e.g., responsiveness, progressive enhancement, browser/device support). Knows when it is appropriate to make graceful fallbacks.
Knowledge of engineering and operational excellence best practices.
Instrument software with real user metrics to reflect the customer experience
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
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Amazon.com

Seattle, WA

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.

The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.

In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.

Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.