What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Front End Developer position at Amazon?
Description
Applicants should possess a comprehensive understanding of the current and emerging trends in web technology, with a critical awareness of their implications on user-centered design. You should have strong communication skills and expertise in a wide range of technologies, including React/JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, Adobe Creative Suite, WCAG AA/accessibility standards, and GenAI/LLMs. Experience with Figma and AWS is also required.
You are customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and adept at working on highly technical teams while collaborating effectively with non-technical creative counterparts. You excel in improving team standards, writing thorough documentation, and managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. You can translate business requirements into exceptional customer experiences by prioritizing the customer perspective and maintaining relentlessly high standards.
Equally passionate about design and development, you possess strong front-end development skills, a creative problem-solving mindset, and a keen eye for world-class functional design. You will contribute disruptive ideas for conceptualizing, creating, and delivering branded shopping experiences for millions of customers worldwide. Your work will span across platforms such as desktop, mobile, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Alexa, Twitch, Amazon Live, and other Amazon properties.
To apply, please include your online portfolio and examples of your processes to demonstrate your suitability for this role.
Key job responsibilities
Own the end-to-end development process and deliverables from a design and technical perspective and deliver high quality, bug free code.
Provide design and technical leadership; work closely with business teams in development of campaign strategy, use cases, and technical requirements
Concept first-to-market innovations that utilize Amazon’s canvas alongside creative counterparts
Prototype new features and products, tackling ambiguous challenges that affect the global team.
Optimize internal processes and tooling for broader impact, strategically aligning initiatives to maximize revenue and influence
Present work to peers, product teams and Senior leadership
Provide leadership, mentor, and coaching to your immediate and extended team on the latest industry trends, tooling, and best practices in web development and design
Expand your influence by collaborating with partner teams, increasing productivity and effectiveness
Basic Qualifications
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2866981
Applicants should possess a comprehensive understanding of the current and emerging trends in web technology, with a critical awareness of their implications on user-centered design. You should have strong communication skills and expertise in a wide range of technologies, including React/JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, Adobe Creative Suite, WCAG AA/accessibility standards, and GenAI/LLMs. Experience with Figma and AWS is also required.
You are customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and adept at working on highly technical teams while collaborating effectively with non-technical creative counterparts. You excel in improving team standards, writing thorough documentation, and managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. You can translate business requirements into exceptional customer experiences by prioritizing the customer perspective and maintaining relentlessly high standards.
Equally passionate about design and development, you possess strong front-end development skills, a creative problem-solving mindset, and a keen eye for world-class functional design. You will contribute disruptive ideas for conceptualizing, creating, and delivering branded shopping experiences for millions of customers worldwide. Your work will span across platforms such as desktop, mobile, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Alexa, Twitch, Amazon Live, and other Amazon properties.
To apply, please include your online portfolio and examples of your processes to demonstrate your suitability for this role.
Key job responsibilities
Own the end-to-end development process and deliverables from a design and technical perspective and deliver high quality, bug free code.
Provide design and technical leadership; work closely with business teams in development of campaign strategy, use cases, and technical requirements
Concept first-to-market innovations that utilize Amazon’s canvas alongside creative counterparts
Prototype new features and products, tackling ambiguous challenges that affect the global team.
Optimize internal processes and tooling for broader impact, strategically aligning initiatives to maximize revenue and influence
Present work to peers, product teams and Senior leadership
Provide leadership, mentor, and coaching to your immediate and extended team on the latest industry trends, tooling, and best practices in web development and design
Expand your influence by collaborating with partner teams, increasing productivity and effectiveness
Basic Qualifications
- 4 years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
- Have coding samples in front end programming languages
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
- Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners
- Knowledge of databases and AWS database services: ElasticSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB
- Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2866981
Salary : $138,800 - $239,900
