Front End Engineer II

DESCRIPTION:

Are you passionate in building low latent and highly scalable distributed services? Do you want to be part of huge opportunity in building world-class Amazon Display Advertising business? We have a team that is making revolutionary leaps forward in this space are in need of Front End Engineers. Come join us and be part of this revolution.

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class Advertising business where we run relevant display ads on key placements across our Retail website (e.g. amazon.com), Retail Mobile Shopping Apps, Devices (e.g. Kindle, Fire Tablet, Fire TV, Echo, etc), Third Party websites (e.g. nytimes.com) and Third Party Mobile Apps. The Multi-Channel Advertising team is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the future growth of Amazon’s ad solutions, by providing self-service display advertising capabilities to 200K+ supplier-brands (vendors and seller-brands). This is a chance to be in on a huge opportunity as we put an Amazon twist into online advertising.

The team is responsible for how ads display on and off Amazon and is working on a greenfield project to build ads with UX optimized through deep learning models.

We’re looking for experienced, motivated front end engineers with a proven track record of building web applications and services. You’ll be responsible for owning, designing and delivering highly scalable systems that will be used to build and serve beautiful innovative ads. You’ll work with customers to scope, design, implement, test and launch new features. You enjoy innovation, simplifying complex problems and tackling tough challenges. Sound like a good fit?

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with object-oriented design
• 2+ years of professional non-internship experience with front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Skilled with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
• Ability to rapidly prototype and adjust in response to customer feedback
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Solid coding practices including peer code reviews, unit testing, and a preference for agile development.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Here are some things that we'd prefer to see, though none is independently a requirement:
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Deep experience in one or more relevant front-end frameworks such as NodeJS, React, Angular, Vue.
• 5+ years of professional front end development.
• Experience building reusable UX components or libraries
• Experience in optimizing frontend performance
• Experience implementing scalable automated testing strategy
• Strong UX design skills
• Experience building scalable, distributed, front-end experiences

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation/Age