Front-End Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The CX Programs operates internal programs to help Amazonians build great customer experiences. We work to integrate disciplines (design, research, product) and teams, helping teach the organization to build great products and accelerate innovation to deliver the best experience for end-customers. Our three focus areas are connecting CX experts for consultation, teaching Amazonians to apply our Working Backwards process, and building tools to scale our impact.

You will be a member of the CX Programs Development Team building new and innovative experiences for Amazon Employees across the front-end technology stack, from application server rendering up through customer-facing sites and widgets. You'll work closely with design, research, and product leaders to create and expand tools and services that provide consultation and learnings enabling teams to creating great customer experiences. This year we are growing our existing portfolio of tools with performance improvements and new feature development.

We are looking for a talented Front-end Engineer to architect our front-end approach for our existing and new tools. You have a passion for building intuitive, efficient, and beautiful web interfaces and experiences. You will work with UX designers, product/technical managers, and other engineers to iterate on new features to improve the user experience. You will lead primarily front-end web development throughout the planning, design and development lifecycle for many unique and innovative user experience projects.

· Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, and transform them into exciting experiences.
· Familiar with web development stacks, Python preferred but not required.
· Know how to integrate data from multiple internal services.
· Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
· Dive-deep into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
· Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire team for development.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 3+ years professional experience building customer facing web applications
· Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques, including JS, CSS, Responsive Design, web services, etc.
· Experience developing web-based user interfaces for mobile and desktop.
· Solid understanding of software development methodologies and processes.
· Bachelor's degree in web development, software engineering, computer science, or equivalent work experience