Front-End Software Engineer, Amazon
Office located in Cambridge, MA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Cambridge, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5+ years of non-internship professional front end and web mobile software development. Modern React experience with hooks, functional components, and TypeScript
- Experience with Single Page Applications (SPA) which have state complexity similar to Google Docs, Figma, or Slack
- Experience with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) or other adaptive media streaming technologies in the frontend
- Experience with real time collaborative features using Websockets or WebRTC
- Experience with component design systems and understanding the tradeoffs when overriding default style logic
- Experience with modern end-to-end testing tools like Playwright or Cypress
Desirable
- Deep understanding of the bundling and deployment process for frontend applications using Webpack, Vite, or Rollup
- Deep understanding of modern state management systems like Zustand, XState, or Redux Toolkit
- Deep understanding of modern debugging techniques and performance profiling for React applications
- Experience with accessibility for highly complex single-page-applications
- Experience with Python, Java, Go, or another general-purpose backend programming language
What the job involves
- This opportunity is to work as a Front-End Engineer within Audible's engineering team
- The team is building customer facing UI and design system for creators and publishers
- We need your help to develop and deliver on this vision
- Success means we lay the foundation for continued expansion of our company without disrupting an already tremendously successful and much-loved project
- Design and implement products that scale to meet demand
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture/design/working software solutions by working with PM, UX designers, and customers
- Own and drive the overall front-end architecture and technical strategy within our platform: Envisioning, designing, creating, and supporting our solutions that operate with a high degree of operational excellence
- Partner with a cross-functional team to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that wows our community and inspires our peers
- Draw inspiration from the tools, trends, technologies and frameworks both industry-wide and within Amazon and apply these in a meaningful way within our software
- Collaborate to deliver the best technology solution, responsible for front-end system design and support and mentoring of our developers
- Be willing to explore business needs and learn un-prompted. Bring problems AND solutions to the table
- Constantly strive to raise the bar on engineering excellence
- Lead the way - staying up to date with tools, trends, technologies and frameworks both industry-wide and within Amazon and then sharing that knowledge in a meaningful way with the community
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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