Are you passionate about building high quality user interface and products that users find super efficient and powerful? If so, please read on about the opportunity to set a new standard for internal customer facing platform.
AWS Commerce Platform (CP) provides the back- and front-end services that enable AWS Service teams to sell to AWS customers, as well as allowing AWS customers to purchase AWS Services and to understand and manage their infrastructure costs. Because we sit at the nexus of all AWS Services and end-customers, we work closely across all AWS teams to ensure that we offer a great customer experience.
We are seeking software engineers focused on Web front-end application development, using the latest tools and technologies on the AWS ecosystem. A successful candidate will have a proven track record of turning customer needs into elegant, user-centric designs, as well as implementing those designs in the presentation layer by using smart, clean Web development patterns. UX Design experience is a plus.
As a Front-End Engineer, you will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle, including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations. You will push your design and architecture limits by building and delivering production-quality Web user experiences that are secure, accessible, maintainable, scalable, performant, and operationally excellent. Taking pride in both the technical and business contribution of your work, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our systems, our business, and our customers. You will design and implement new features, and be part of a team that is building the future of the cloud.
In this role, you will…
- Help define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall experience.
- Own and operate the systems that you build, based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.
- Collaborate closely with UX Designers, Product Managers, and generalist Software Development Engineers on the same team to help define the scope of the product.
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of an autonomous team.
- Take responsibility for technical problem-solving, creatively meeting product goals, and developing best practices.
- You will design and develop MVC based web applications.
- Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in TypeScript, JavaScript and React JS.
- Design Amazon scale tools to facilitate internal business.
- Build highly available, secure systems that deal with confidential billing data.
- Mentor and support the growth of other developers.
- Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale".
Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job, but we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. We are an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.
Outside of working on some of the most impactful, cutting-edge technology in the world, what else can you expect when you join AWS?
On-Call Responsibility
As a team, we all share on-call responsibilities. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault-tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience with Web applications.
- Proficiency in foundational tools for Web application development such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript.
- Experience with frameworks for front-end Web application development such as React JS, Angular.
- Experience with front-end testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, Selenium, Cypress.
- Experience building rich data-driven web applications by consuming ReSTful services and APIs.
- Experience in developing or participating in UX design reviews.
- Genuinely excited about technology, with a strong interest in learning and playing with the latest technologies, and building compelling Web applications and UIs.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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