- React
- Web services
- Vue.js
- CSS
- Redux
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Flexible schedule
- 401(k)
2+ years of professional non-internship experience with front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Job summary
Do you have a passion for making developers more productive? Do you want to get in on the ground floor and help to build a product suite that will change the way thousands of developers build their customer experiences on the Amazon.com website? Then join the Amazon Developer Platform team!
The mission of the Amazon Developer Platform team is to accelerate Amazon.com shopping experience development via empowering and delighting developers. In the team, we build tools to help builders write, test, debug, launch and monitor their experiences quickly and easily across multiple platforms. The goal of the team is to optimize the inner loop of development workflows that targets the Amazon Retail website and beyond, whether it is mobile or desktop or web or native. We are a small, focused and rapidly growing team with an abundance of growth and impact opportunities.
As a Front-end engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will be contributing to the design and development of the end-to-end developer experience across all 50+ teams and be the key technical advocate with partner teams. You will work with senior leaders across Amazon, finding solutions to multi-dimensional problems and driving a consistent tooling experience across the different parts of the Amazon.com product portfolio.
In this role you will also:
Be a key contributor to our team strategy and roadmap, focused specifically on self-serve customer success.
Be responsible for developing a deep understanding of the needs and challenges facing the diverse set of developers who build on the Amazon.com (http://amazon.com/) website today.
Build higher level abstractions and components that developers can easily incorporate into their flow.
Work cross-functionally with our product teams, many other engineering teams, and partner developers to design and implement the Amazon Retail developer platform.
The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance web services or applications requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
What is in it for you?
Work life harmony: Our team also puts a high value on work-life harmony. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
Impact: Work on an online experience that is being used, directly and indirectly, by millions of customers and has a meaningful impact to their functions and interactions.
Team culture: You'll be joining a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people that loves working together towards a common goal.
Gratification: You will know you are directly responsible for solving real customer pain points.
Learn & Grow: You will learn and grow with challenges across multiple applications and stacks.
About the team
Our team is a Seattle-based reduced-hours team. We don't work Fridays!
Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as React, Redux, Vue, Ember, or Angular
Experience building scalable, highly available web services or applications
Passion for customer/user experience.
The pay range for this position in Colorado is $143,700-194,400/yr. Our range of benefits may include health care, employee discounts, 401(k) savings plans, paid time off, and more. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.
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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workers in New York City who perform in-person work or interact with the public in the course of business must show proof they have been fully vaccinated against COVID or request and receive approval for a reasonable accommodation, including medical or religious accommodation.