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Description

Amazon Worldwide Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. The Systems and Control Tiger Team owns the monitoring tool for scientists, engineers and traders to deep dive the behavior of their ad campaigns. We are passionate about building scalable, well-designed software services, and strive to constantly improve our technical foundation and user experience.

We are looking for a Front End Engineer to help us build the next generation of self-service advertising monitoring tools. We are seeking that rare combination of solid coding background, good design sense, an aptitude to apply technologies at scale, and a willingness to challenge the status quo and raise the bar on every service and feature we build.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about quality, consistency, maintainability, performance, security and all the other things that make great software great. They will own the design and implementation of major deliverables end-to-end. This position requires collaboration with fellow software engineers and partner teams, including applied scientists, necessitating a comfort-level with ambiguity and a desire to create, iterate and improve.

Key job responsibilities

- Minimum of 3+ years’ industry experience as a software development engineer, web development engineer, front end engineer or similar

- Proficiency in JavaScript and CSS

- Proficiency in at least one widely-used front end frameworks (e.g. react.js, next.js, etc)

- Proficiency working in middle tier (API, back-end-for-front-end, or similar)

- Proficiency in at least one widely-used typed, OO language (e.g. Java, C#, Python)

- Strong problem solving and analytical abilities

- Deep knowledge and practice of software best practices for the full software development life-cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

- Experience mentoring other software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective and productive

- Strong advocacy of agile engineering practices

- Success with continuous integration and deployment practices

About the team

The Demand Tech Systems and Control Tiger Team is a specialized unit that tackles high-impact, complex technical challenges across Amazon's advertising systems. We focus on building and optimizing ML systems, feedback controllers, and mathematical models to enhance bidding strategies, budget allocation, and campaign performance at scale. We are looking for a pioneering and collaborative Front-End Engineer to help us design and build our next generation monitoring tool to help shine a light on systems near and far within Amazon Advertising. If you are a Front-End Development Engineer who is interested in being close to the business problems, wants to broaden your leadership skills, and are passionate about delivering world class user experiences, we would love to talk to you.

Basic Qualifications

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

- 3+ 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

- 2+ 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.