Front-End Engineer

The Amazon EC2 team is seeking a Front-End Engineer to create customer facing consoles and innovate to improve experiences for millions of users.

The EC2 Console team is based in Seattle and operates various consoles within the EC2 Console.

Our mission is to enable our customers to learn, build, deploy, monitor and manage their EC2 infrastructure. We use rich data drawn from customer and product research as well as real time analytics to monitor and anticipate our customers’ needs.

We then design and build innovative solutions for our customers using the latest web based technologies.

You will work with UI Designers on website interfaces and utilize user interface design patterns to solve business problems with highly accessible and usable web applications.

You will leverage your working knowledge of UI design principles to build new interfaces.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

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

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will develop new features and improvements for the Consoles, working with your team, product managers and UX designers to build web-based products that delight our customers.

You will own customer facing features through the entire life-cycle, from design, implementation, testing, deployment and into production.

You will work to optimize applications for performance and reliability.

As a FEE, you will develop an understanding of what customers do and why they do it to ensure that solutions meet their needs and are fit for purpose.

You will leverage your experience to make trade-offs between usability, performance, internationalization and localization, cross-browser compatibility, obfuscation, optimization, and cutting edge customer interface implementation.

About the team

Work / Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.

We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
• 2+ 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

• 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience
• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
30+ days ago