Description

Amazon's Fulfillment Technologies is seeking enthusiastic and talented Front End Engineer to help innovate, architect, design and build highly available, scalable and real time applications. As the world’s largest fulfillment operations handling group, we obsess for innovation in simplifying these operations. One of the most challenging aspects of day-to-day fulfillment center operations is improving fulfillment center (FC) associates experience by building better tools to handle their tasks.

We are looking for candidates with strong obsession towards building a unified platform that enhances the users ability to bring engineering excellence to what engineers do. You will get a chance to build the automations around Amazing scale of high impact software systems and operations. And the best part? We are on the cutting-edge of technology for order fulfillment across the globe, and there are no textbook solutions for the challenges we take on to build and implement them. There are so many opportunities to innovate, invent on behalf of our users and simplify the operational processes for improving the FCs operability and FC associates productivity - it is still Day One.

As a Sr. FEE, you will be responsible for challenging the status quo, raising the bar on every service and feature we build, driving the team’s long-term vision and architecture, shaping roadmaps, and providing technical leadership to the engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive design and architecture experience, deep hands-on front-end development experience, knowledge of AWS technologies and services, and a proven track record of building mission critical, highly scalable systems. You consider usability, accessibility, and performance in the products you build and work backward from the customer to anticipate their needs. You leverage your knowledge of the nuances, pitfalls and strengths of the various front-end development frameworks and associated best practices.

Key job responsibilities

As a Sr Front End Engineer, you will:

• Actively participate in overall product strategy and UI presentation.

• Be involved in every aspect of the UI for new features – from idea generation, exploring different design options, and technical design through software development using the latest technologies and design patterns.

• Collaborate with Software Development Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers to ensure the best experience for our customers.

• Design highly functional and lovable UI. The software must be well tested and high quality.

• The UI must be compliant with accessibility standards set at Amazon.

A day in the life

As an FEE in the Safety and Compliance organization, you will play a critical role in achieving our Amazon leadership principles ‘Strive to be the Earth’s Best Employer’ and ‘Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility’ by helping deliver a world-class systems that ensure safe and compliant processing of inventory through their lifecycle at Amazon. Our systems are cloud native AWS enterprise web applications supporting a large global user base. Our organization is comprised of multiple teams each responsible for supporting and delivering key products. Our engineer teams are agile based, supported by agile ceremonies (daily start-up, grooming, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives).

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

AFT Safety and Compliance (AFT S&C) org owns products that identify, track, and mitigate EHS concerns as well as Supply Chain Compliance systems that enable the end-to-end execution of regulations for all compliance programs and waste management. Our vision is to empower Amazon businesses to define and implement regulatory and operational standards, measure compliance with those requirements, and quantify potential risks through our centralized and closed loop systems.

Basic Qualifications

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

• 5+ years of front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows experience

• Experience developing with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. React.JS, AngularJS, Vue)

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST

• Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.