Front End Engineer, Amazon
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Are you an expert in web technologies? Want to use this expertise for creating the next generation Amazon internal customer experience? We are looking for smart, motivated Front End Engineers passionate about delivering a world-class customer experience to help take our tooling to new heights
- If you have the skills for building high-performance, customer-friendly products that delight customers, and are interested in leading-edge cloud computing, this is the role for you
- Successful candidates for this position will have a strong background in building web applications using current technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS and web-UI frameworks like jQuery, React, Flux etc. Working with Web Services, JSON, Apache/Tomcat services is desired
- Equally important to these specific skills are a candidate's ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems
- 3+ years Experience in building web applications with frameworks
- Proficiency in Java, C/C++/C# or another high-level programming language & experience with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Experience with common front-end technologies, such as React, Angular, Webpack, Babel, and Grunt
- Experience of front-end test frameworks such as Jest with Enzyme, Mocha, Jasmine
- A solid grasp of fundamental algorithms and applications
Desirable
- Working knowledge of distributed systems and a willingness to jump in and learn what is happening in the back-end code
- Working knowledge of Node.js
- Can decompose a problem into clear system, API, and UX design actions
- Passion for operational excellence
What the job involves
- We are currently looking for a Front end developer to build world-class user interfaces for our customers
- You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers
- And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion
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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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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