Senior Front End Developer, Amazon
$138.8-239.9k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$138.8-239.9k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- You are customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and adept at working on highly technical teams while collaborating effectively with non-technical creative counterparts
- You excel in improving team standards, writing thorough documentation, and managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy
- You can translate business requirements into exceptional customer experiences by prioritizing the customer perspective and maintaining relentlessly high standards
- Equally passionate about design and development, you possess strong front-end development skills, a creative problem-solving mindset, and a keen eye for world-class functional design
- 4+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
- Have coding samples in front end programming languages
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
- Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners
- Applicants should possess a comprehensive understanding of the current and emerging trends in web technology, with a critical awareness of their implications on user-centered design
- You should have strong communication skills and expertise in a wide range of technologies, including React/JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, Adobe Creative Suite, WCAG AA/accessibility standards, and GenAI/LLMs. Experience with Figma and AWS is also required
Desirable
- Knowledge of databases and AWS database services: ElasticSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB
- Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods
What the job involves
- You will contribute disruptive ideas for conceptualizing, creating, and delivering branded shopping experiences for millions of customers worldwide
- Your work will span across platforms such as desktop, mobile, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Alexa, Twitch, Amazon Live, and other Amazon properties
- Own the end-to-end development process and deliverables from a design and technical perspective and deliver high quality, bug free code
- Provide design and technical leadership; work closely with business teams in development of campaign strategy, use cases, and technical requirements
- Concept first-to-market innovations that utilize Amazon’s canvas alongside creative counterparts
- Prototype new features and products, tackling ambiguous challenges that affect the global team
- Optimize internal processes and tooling for broader impact, strategically aligning initiatives to maximize revenue and influence
- Present work to peers, product teams and Senior leadership
- Provide leadership, mentor, and coaching to your immediate and extended team on the latest industry trends, tooling, and best practices in web development and design
- Expand your influence by collaborating with partner teams, increasing productivity and effectiveness
Application process
- To apply, please include your online portfolio and examples of your processes to demonstrate your suitability for this role
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.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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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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