Front End Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Like to develop real-time, distributed, large-scale, and modern front-end applications? Like to interact with worldwide advertising customers to build systems that makes advertising and it's billing frictionless? Familiar with front-end development technologies such as JavaScript, ReactJS, AngularJS, HTML5 and CSS3 and front-end design patterns? Interested in being part of a worldwide Advertising Customer Experience team? Then, Software Development team that builds Tier-1 customer facing front-end Advertising Experience wants you!

Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon, empowering Amazon Sellers, Vendors, Authors, and Publishers to boost their product reach and sales through performance and display advertising.
The Iron Mountain platform is an enabler for SSPA's worldwide rapid growth and offers a singular platform to manage all of the advertiser facing functions like billing, invoicing, accounting automation, budgets, promotions, payments, and Billing Advertiser Experience(AX) in real-time while being transparent and audit-able from the ground-up. As a part of this high-energy, entrepreneurial team you will get an opportunity to innovate on solutions that control the very levers of our advertisers' experience and have the satisfaction of seeing your work impacting multiple advertising business and bring in multi-million transactions worth 100x in dollar value on a daily basis. This platform owns these mandates for worldwide advertising displayed On or Off Amazon.

The Iron Mountain team is looking for a Software Engineer to participate in building a global, scaleable, extensible, and secure front-end applications for Billing, Budgeting, Payments, and Promotions Advertiser Experience(AX). These applications have to be capable of seamlessly interacting with different downstream ad serving platforms, billing and budgeting systems for the broad variety of Advertisement programs with no loss in information and builds customer facing front-end applications to enable frictionless billing, budgeting and payments for advertising. This platform has to guarantee a SLA of milliseconds to ensure that real time front-end experience of advertisers are not impacted. To build this platform you will need to be well versed with high performance and distributed architecture.

Key Technical Challenges:
Distributed and Scalable Front-End Architecture: Looking at advertising international expansion and business growth plans for next year, we expect this traffic to grow 10X in near future. Billing and Budgeting front-end systems should be easily scalable to manage an exponential increase in business and extensible to support different business needs.

High Availability: These are customer facing Tier-1 front-end applications. Downtime in Advertiser Experience systems can cause a huge loss in revenue and loss of business opportunity for our advertisers. This can be a big trust buster for our advertisers. High Availability architecture is to make sure that the system is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime.

Key responsibilities:
· You own what you and your team creates.
· You work with your team to invent, design, and build software that is stable, performant, secure, and accessibility compliant. You work on feature ideas with customers, designers, product managers, stakeholders, and peers.
· You increase the speed of implementation of UX features by identifying and mitigating design risks early.
· You view your interface creations from the customer’s point of view.
· You are proficient in view layout and rendering technologies (e.g., responsiveness, device/browser support, progressive enhancement, interaction fluidity) and know when it is appropriate to make graceful fallbacks.
· You understand how to build, package, deploy, and deliver your code and supporting assets (e.g., images, fonts) to the user. You optimize delivery of code and assets to the client (e.g., using CDNs, caching, compression).
· You are judicious when introducing dependencies and efficient with resource usage (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, cache appropriately, respectful of customer’s devices, etc.).
· The fast growing Iron Mountain team today has members across Bangalore, Seattle, and New York, and like the advertising business is truly global in spirit!

What is Amazon Advertising?
Amazon Advertising is a set of tools offered to advertisers - sellers, vendors, authors, publishers, and more - to increasing the visibility of their products and services on Amazon, using Cost-per-click (CPC) and Cost-per-impression (CPM) programs. At the scale of Amazon it is extremely important for our advertisers to have the right set of controls to create and boost their advertising presence to gain customers and create long term value.

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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience building scalable front-end infrastructure software or distributed systems for commercial online services.
· Exposure to Front-end libraries/framework - primarily React.
· Able to solve difficult software and UX problems with some ambiguity.
· Proficient in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns. Knows when (and when not) to use front-end software design patterns (e.g., asynchronicity, data binding, modules, objects, promises).
· Can articulate the risks and benefits of depending on front-end libraries, frameworks, and toolsets.
· Able to dive into the source code of front end libraries to debug, patch, and extend them when necessary.
· Proficient in view layout and rendering technologies (e.g., responsiveness, progressive enhancement, browser/device support).
· Understands how to optimize the delivery of code and assets (e.g., images, fonts) to a browser or device (e.g., lazy loading assets, using CDNs, caching, compression, etc.).
· Understands how to be efficient with resource usage (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, caches appropriately, respectful of customer’s devices, etc.).
· Good knowledge of AWS Services and IAAS/SAAS concepts. Able to solve difficult software and UX problems with some ambiguity. Pushes for information to avoid solving the wrong problem and mitigate UI risks early in the process to avoid feature delays. Can decompose a problem into clear software and UX design actions.

Desired profile

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