Sr. Front End Engineer

Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Location: Arlington
Posted on: June 6, 2021

Job Description:

Are you interested in building the next generation data analysis and visualization tool for Amazon? Do you want to aide us in rethinking the way we discover and drive the reduction of risk Amazon faces in business, customer, and regulatory realms? Do you want to equip our customers with the power to distill big data problems into simple to navigate and understand views?

Our team is responsible for replacing traditionally manual analysis in audit with exhaustive and programmatic solutions that dive deep into the underlying data. We need you, as a skilled Front-End Engineer to collaborate with our audit customers to prototype and produce interfaces focused on risk discovery, business intelligence, and easily surfacing key data points.

A successful candidate will bring best practice design principals and is able to effectively engage customers in small group settings to present, discuss, iterate, and improve on interfaces to accomplish common mission focused goals. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced team with impact up to the Audit Committee and can design and deliver interfaces that revolutionize the business-critical work we do, then come and join us!

We are looking for a skilled Front-End Engineer capable of building responsive and highly interactive interfaces using modern tooling like React. We want someone who can work well in a heterogeneous environment of different languages and technologies, and can bring flexibility, speed and quality to our team. You should be genuinely excited about technology, have a strong interest in learning about and playing with the latest technologies and building compelling web applications and UI.

• Experience with object-oriented design
• 4+ years of professional non-internship experience with front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of professional front-end development.
• Demonstrates UX design skills, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Skilled with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node.
• Extensive experience in one or more relevant front-end frameworks such as React.
• Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to customer feedback.
• Well practiced coding paradigms including peer code reviews, unit testing, and a preference for agile development.
• Masters degree in CS or an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of professional front end development.
• Experience building scalable, distributed, front-end experiences.
• Experience building reusable UX components or libraries.
• Understands how to optimize the delivery of code and assets to a browser or device.
• Proficient in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns. Knows when (and when not) to use front-end software design pattern.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Ability to decompose a problem into clear software and UX design actions.
• Ability to articulate the benefits and challenges of depending on front-end libraries, frameworks, and tool-sets.
• AWS Services, Finance, and/or Audit specific domain experience.

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