Front End Engineer, Devices Design Group

Amazon’s Devices and Services Design Group (DDG) imagines the future of software and hardware experiences, powered by Alexa.

Join the team behind Echo Show, Echo Spot, Fire TV, Fire Tablets, and the growing family of Echo devices. We’re just getting started, and we’d love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers.

As a member of the Design Engineering team, you’ll support the design studio with your deep technical knowledge and experience working on world-class consumer software experiences.

You’ll help your peers unlock technically challenging scenarios and mature the design studio’s ability to deliver design at scale, across a breadth of device categories.

As an experienced Front End Engineer, you will design, build and operate Web services and tooling to advance design methodology and delivery.

You’ll interface with teams across a range of product lines and disciplines. Surrounded by world-class talent, and building on a pure AWS infrastructure, you will translate user requirements, drive an evolving architecture, help define our roadmap, and individually contribute code.

This role requires ownership, autonomy, and an ability to deliver results, often within the ambiguity of building a v1 product.

You will need to work efficiently to build the right things with limited guidance, and your experience will raise the bar to create an amazing experience for our customers.

About the team

DDG's Design Engineering team empowers the Devices and Services Design Group through the discipline of software engineering in three key areas : software and hardware prototyping;

studio tools, utilities, and infrastructure; and front-end engineering in shipping codebases. Front End Engineering strategically engages directly with partner engineering teams to translate design systems to scalable component libraries, build signature product moments to meet design intent, and advance platform capabilities and maturity.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ 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 with object-oriented design
• Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.
• MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience building on the AWS Platform
• Experience developing complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers
• Experience communicating with users, and other technical teams to collect requirements, describe software product features and technical designs
• Sensibility for consumer electronics and technology
• Passion for inventing new product designs and technical solutions
• Programming experience on native mobile platforms
• Experience creating advanced architectures and sustainable solutions
• Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and non-technical partners
• Interest and proficiency in visual design
• Experience and passion for developing visually polished, engaging and highly fluid user interfaces
• Strong attention to detail and organization skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• An online portfolio of work demonstrating expertise creating front-end solutions
30+ days ago