• Front-End Engineer, Shopping Design

    Amazon (Seattle, WA)


    Description

    Deliver delightful and innovative shopping experiences for Amazon customers everywhere. You will work directly with design, product, and technical leaders to build, test, deliver, and maintain new user interfaces and interactions that improve the shopping experience.

     

    Key job responsibilities

    As an Front-End Engineer on the Shopping Design Tech team, you will:

    - Deliver features and improvements to major portions of the codebase, working closely with stakeholders and peers to understand customer problems and ensure you build the right front-end solutions

     

    - Tackle difficult problems with visible risks, bringing clarity and identifying simple front-end solutions while understanding customer impact

     

    - Design software solutions to enable new features or improve existing ones, aligning with your team's long-term architectural strategy

     

    - Demonstrate operational excellence in all of your work, actively participating in operational support and ensuring root causes of issues are identified and resolved

     

    - Earn trust with design, product, and engineering partners, demonstrating empathy, candor, and backbone through all levels of communication

     

    A day in the life

     

    - Designing and implementing innovative shopping features and experiences that delight customers

     

    - Collaborating closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn concepts into high-quality, scalable code

     

    - Working across the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, UX review, code implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance

     

    - Utilizing common UI design patterns to decrease friction between the customer and software

     

    - Balancing speed of execution with architectural requirements and user experience considerations

     

    - Utilizing the team's prototyping and experimentation tools to rapidly validate ideas and gather customer feedback

     

    - Continuously learning and expanding your skills to keep pace with evolving technologies and customer needs

    About the team

    The mission of the Shopping Design Tech team is to build magical shopping experiences that customers use daily and love. We are part of a group that includes product and design leaders who design the Amazon shopping experience for customers. We build the features that make it easy for customers to discover, evaluate, and transact on Amazon. We enable Amazon builders with design patterns, systems, tools, and best practices to design a cohesive and delightful shopping CX.

     

    Your stakeholders include design, product, and engineering leadership, all of whom rely on your expertise and guidance to deliver exceptional shopping experiences for Amazon customers.

    Basic Qualifications

    - 2+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience

     

    - 1+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience

     

    - Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react

    Preferred Qualifications

    - 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience

     

    - Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node

     

    Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

     

    Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

     

    Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.