Senior Front End Engineer, Amazon
$134.5-261.5k
NY preferred
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$134.5-261.5k
NY preferred
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with object-oriented design
- 4+ years of professional non-internship experience with front end, web or mobile software development using Next.JS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
- Experience with web accessibility standards
Desirable
- Experience with web security
- Experience with AWS architecture patterns for high traffic web applications
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience with working a design system and components based UI
- Experience in communicating with stakeholders, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy. Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Working knowledge of distributed systems and a willingness to jump in and learn what is happening in the back-end code
- Experience with user testing
- Can decompose a problem into clear system, API, and UX design actions
- Passion for operational excellence
What the job involves
- We are looking for a FEE who wants join a two-pizza team developing and maintaining web applications that support editorial workflows and content delivery. You should be a seasoned builder with experience designing/building products at meaningful scale, and be comfortable owning end-to-end deliverables. This is a role where initiatives frequently, quickly move from limited customer interaction, to immediate, significant usage
- You’ll be a leading voice in our team for reviewing peer design and code. You'll be actively encouraged to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate on behalf of our customers. An ideal candidate will operate at all levels, diving deep into architecture details while providing strategic inputs for our products
- A typical day will range from writing and reviewing code, to product feedback sessions with directors and vice presidents. You will work with a team of talented engineers and content editors—understanding publishing problems and designing solutions for them—and also be capable of and enjoy working directly with non-technical customers
- The ideal candidate is passionate about new opportunities and has a strong track record of successfully leading and delivering new features/products. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building scalable software products
- This person thrives on delivering high quality technology solutions in a hyper-growth environment
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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